[Talk-GB] UK use of highway=living_street
Andy Allan
gravitystorm at gmail.com
Mon Sep 1 08:23:51 UTC 2014
On 31 August 2014 18:27, Donald Noble <drnoble at gmail.com> wrote:
> I have tended to map sections of residential streets with block paving, no
> footways, and either chicanes of just sharp corners to prevent people
> driving quickly as living_streets, whether or not they were explicitly
> designed as such. These also tend to be exclusively dead-end sections,
> rather than main routes. Not sure if this is correct, but I think there is a
> difference between this type of street and relatively wide tarmac roads with
> sweeping corners, where even if the speed limit is 20mph, cars can easily
> drive at 30.
I'd map those all as residential. I'd only map signed "Home Zones"[1]
as living street, for example at
http://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=18/51.44680/-0.12162
Cheers,
Andy
[1] Signed with
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a7/UK_traffic_sign_881A.svg
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