[Talk-br] highway=living_street or residental in Brazilian cities?

[Gerald Weber]

Perhaps it would be worthwhile asking the original mapper why he has chosen
living_street
http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/fscfagner
as he may have further information not accessible from images

cheers

Gerald

On 18 September 2014 14:16, Andreas Schmidt <schmidt-postfach em freenet.de>
wrote:

> Good evening,
>
> while mapping in Itanhém (Bahia), I found all streets in the city,
> except the main state street BA-290, tagged as living_street.
> Those streets that were missing and I added today, have been tagged as
> residental by me, resulting in a city with mixed sort of streets now:
> http://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=16/-17.1650/-40.3357
>
> That's unusual for me and I want to ask, which is the usual way to tag
> city streets in Brazil?
>
> Here in Germany, a living_street means:
> * right of way for pedestrians, who may walk or play on the entire street
> * maximum speed 7 km/h
> * no parking except dedicated signs allow parking
>
> Most city streets (90-95%) in Europe are residental rather than
> living_street.
> How is it in Brazil?
>
> kind regards
> Andreas
>
>
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