[Talk-us] guidelines regarding roads access

[Paul Norman]

On 9/14/2017 12:23 AM, David Wisbey wrote:
>
> I limit the use of "residential" to typical residential city or town 
> government-maintained streets.
>
> I use "living street" for residential streets that are completely open 
> to the public but not maintained
>
> by the local or state government; they must have a street name as well.
>
> I use "service road" (with no service road type added) for the main 
> ways through and around
>
> a development (mobile home park, apartment complex, condominium or 
> townhome cluster, etc)
>
> that do not have names of their own. If they do have have names, I map 
> those that have the names
>
> as "living street".
>

This is incorrect use of highway=living_street. With some rare 
exceptions, highway=living_street do not exist in the US or Canada, and 
the concept does not generally exist in our traffic codes.
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