[Talk-GB] Classification of roads

[Colin Smale]

There is a legal distinction between Tertiary and Unclassified; the responsible highway authority decides, and records it in their definitive list of streets. A tertiary road has a number, usually prefixed by a 'C', which is not usually publicised.

Looking at Streetview it looks like Alexandria Road has a function for through traffic, so IMHO it should not be tagged as residential. Whether it's tertiary or unclassified depends formally on the HA as mentioned above. But one thing is certain: the mere presence of houses along this road is not sufficient to class it as residential.

>     On 08/19/2021 6:58 PM Steven Hirschorn <steven.hirschorn at gmail.com> wrote:
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> 
>     Hi All,
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>     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?
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>     Here's the changeset:
>     https://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/109772829
> 
>     Steven
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