[talk-au] Residential Roads

[Sam Couter]

Peter Watson <peter.bmwk75rt at gmail.com> wrote:
> I have a fairly narrow view on what a residential road is in Aust. 1. Is in a
> built up area or suburb, 2. Has 50km/h or less speed limit. 3. Has house blocks
> on at least one side. I find so many roads in the maps which are out of town,
> have acre blocks or farms on them and have been tagged by the maxspeed bot as
> 50km/h because they have been tagged residential. These roads often have
> speedlimits of 60 or higher. I think these should be tagged unclassified. What
> do other mappers think.

Many urban residential roads have speed limits of 60 or maybe 70km/h. I think
rural roads with moderately dense residential acre blocks and 80km/h speed
limits are still residential, unless they're also the main route to a
neighbouring town, in which case they're tertiary.
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Sam Couter         |  mailto:sam at couter.id.au
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