[Talk-ca] highway=living_street

John Whelan jwhelan0112 at gmail.com
Tue May 16 19:02:04 UTC 2023


The two or three I came across where in Ontario, specifically Ottawa.

Thanks for the input

Cheerio John

Jarek Piórkowski wrote on 5/16/2023 2:56 PM:
> No legal status in Ontario that I am aware of.
>
> The ones I've seen in OSM around me (Scott Street and Market Street, 
> both around St. Lawrence, Toronto) appears to be tagged based on built 
> form (surface=paving_stones and level curbs, in particular). Those 
> street have no particular legal status that I am aware of, but a brief 
> edit conflict seems to have resolved by the editor(s) wanting the 
> living_street tag outlasting editor(s) seeking correctness.
>
> I'm not really opposed to it, though it's not correct in OSM terms as 
> it stands now.
>
> I'm not holding my breath on Ontario creating the legal category, so 
> it _might_ be worth it to create some criteria that would describe 
> physical and legal characteristics (surface, curbs, sidewalks, max 
> speed?) of a street that might get the living_street tag per province? 
> I wouldn't want to be the one defining them, though.
>
> --Jarek
>
> On Tue, May 16, 2023, at 14:18, John Whelan wrote:
>> We seem to have a few creeping into the map in Canada.  In Europe 
>> they have a legal meaning is that the case in Canada or is it just 
>> wishful thinking?
>>
>> Thanks John
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