[Talk-GB] Classification of roads

[Tom Hughes]

On 19/08/2021 17:58, Steven Hirschorn wrote:

> I have an OSMCha alert set up when people edit OSM in my area and the 
> other day someone changed the classification of a road from tertiary to 
> residential. Is there somewhere where this classification is recorded 
> officially, or is the distinction between tertiary and residential in 
> the UK sufficiently vague that a road could be represented as either?
> 
> Here's the changeset:
> https://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/109772829 
> <https://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/109772829>

Specifically I assume it is Alexandria Road you are talking about?

There's no fixed rule about residential/unclassified/tertiary like
there is for other roads but that's pretty clearly not tertiary in
my opinion.

Tertiary is typically used for through roads that go somewhere but
aren't otherwise classified and that road is clearly not intended
as anything other than access to/part of a residential area.

Tom

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