[Talk-GB] UK use of highway=living_street

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The first bit I'd map as a tiny highway=residential way, with the rest as a
highway=service where the kerb crosses the road & the road also narrows.

This is a special case because the narrower road connects with the next
street, but otherwise it looks similar to many modern estates which I've
mapped. Often in mapping these places on foot one is aware that there are
some roads which it's a bit intrusive to follow (although obviously the
Google car didnt think so).

Jerry


On 2 September 2014 19:28, Donald Noble <drnoble at gmail.com> wrote:

> So what would people map this street as? I'm not sure whether
> highway=residential is best - is it just  service road?
>
> https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@55.866894,-3.099807,3a,75y,304.34h,67.18t/data=!3m4!1e1!3m2!1sjBcsReKD0swYNKMm0vHcTQ!2e0
>
> Apologies for GM link, but don't have my photos/video of this area to hand.
>
> Chers, Donald
>
>
> On 1 September 2014 16:50, Derick Rethans <osm at derickrethans.nl> wrote:
>
>> On Mon, 1 Sep 2014, Andy Allan wrote:
>>
>> > 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
>>
>> That's what I would expect. And this maps 1:1 with what the Dutch call
>> "woonerf" (with a similar sign).
>>
>> cheers,
>> Derick
>>
>
>
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