[Talk-GB] Classification of roads

[Tom Hughes]

We have never tied the OSM classification to LA classifications
for such minor roads though.

Rather it has always been a judgement call for the mapper.

Tom

On 19/08/2021 18:35, Colin Smale wrote:
> 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:
>>
>>
>> Hi All,
>>
>> 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>
>>
>> Steven
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