[Talk-us] Use of highway=tertiary

[Paul Johnson]

Stellan Lagerstrom wrote:

> We have a user (mk408) who seems intent on turning 3/4 of all
> residential streets in the bay area into tertiary.
> This seems excessive to me. Most of these are just residential streets,
> not thoroughfares, etc.
> Views?
> Here's one changeset: http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/changeset/3519089

This guy's wrong.  Based on the area around Joseph P Kelly Park, a lot
of residential streets that truly are residential are being marked
tertiary.  Rule of thumb if you can tell the two apart, tertiary has
painted centerlines.