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

[Paul Johnson]

On Sat, Jun 4, 2016 at 10:29 AM, Eric Ladner <eric.ladner at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Sat, Jun 4, 2016 at 5:58 AM Greg Troxel <gdt at ir.bbn.com> wrote:
>
>>
>> Kevin Kenny <kevin.b.kenny+osm at gmail.com> writes:
>>
>> > 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 also see a distinction between residential/unclassified as denoting a
>> legal road (around me, carved-out parcel wise from the surrounding land)
>> vs track and some service denoting a non-legal-road.  However, others
>> see the physical and legal attributes as separate.
>>
>>
> My understanding of the description of "unclassified" is unclassified is a
> step between residential and tertiary.   It's a connecting road, minor
> connector, whatever, that doesn't have residential on it, but it's not high
> enough in classification to make it a tertiary road.
>

Generally speaking, yes.  It's roughly the BFE version of residential.


> I usually use it for roads in industrial complexes, loops around malls,
> business complexes, or other connectors/roads where there's no obvious
> residential around.
>

That might work in some situations but for the most part, that's
highway=service; service=*
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