[Talk-us] Best practices for dealing with old TIGER tags?

[Kevin Kenny]

OK, 'residential' if it looks like 'subdivision', 'unclassified'
otherwise (as long as it's drivable in, say, my daughter's car rather
than my 4-wheeler). Got it.

I suspect that 'residential'/'unclassified' right now is almost a
difference without a distinction. I suppose that 'residential' might
be a weak indication to a router to avoid the route, but the
consequences of getting it wrong don't appear to be terribly severe.
Which is a relief.

On Fri, Jun 3, 2016 at 6:56 PM, Richard Welty <rwelty at averillpark.net> wrote:
> On 6/3/16 5:13 PM, Kevin Kenny wrote:
>> Can someone review for me the 'rural residential' problem?
> the short version is that we are supposed to use residential
> in truly residential areas and unclassified for generic town
> roads. in tiger, there is no distinction between the two and so
> everything was imported as residential.
>
> i leave it residential in areas that have a subdivision vibe
> going - multiple closely spaced houses or comparatively small
> building lots, but change it to unclassified if it's just a bunch
> of homes that have been built along old farm roads over the
> years. the section of the road i live on is slightly borderline,
> or would be if the lots were smaller, but most of them are 4 acres
> or more.
>
> richard
>
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