[talk-au] Re-tag rural residential roads to unclassified?

[cleary]

I usually tag such roads in rural areas as highway=unclassified. 

I would use highway=residential for towns, suburbs or outer-suburban areas with residential housing or large housing blocks up to about 2 hectares - where the landuse is primarily residential or other urban use such as commercial. 

In rural areas, the land is usually used for agricultural or other purposes, with a few buildings on each farm. I would not regard this as residential and I would use the "unclassified" tag.





On Fri, 2 Oct 2020, at 2:43 PM, Little Maps wrote:
> Hi everyone, I was reviewing highway tags in south-central NSW 
> (initially to add in missing paved and unpaved tags) and noted that 
> road classification differ greatly between adjacent local gov areas. In 
> central Federation Shire Council, north of Mulwala and Corowa, the bulk 
> of rural roads are tagged as residential whereas in all surrounding 
> LGAs they are tagged as unclassified, as shown in this Overpass query: 
> http://overpass-turbo.eu/s/YCa
> 
> 
> (the query shows 4 adjacent LGAs, with the Federation Shire in the 
> lower centre). 
> 
> 
> This is a rural cropping /grazing region, not a densely settled 
> irrigation area. Is it appropriate to re-tag the rural "residential" 
> roads as "unclassified'' for consistency, after inspecting each on 
> satellite images, leaving residential roads in and around small towns 
> only? Thanks for your help, Ian
> 
> 
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