[OSM-talk] Map Features tagging question

[Andy Robinson]

Etienne,

Out of interest, are you distinguishing for residential areas between road
types below secondary?

Currently I am generally using:
1. unclassified - for boundary highways not part of housing estates
2. residential - for highways within the unclassified "block"
3. service - for those bits of road that link to things but don't really fit
with anything else. I render these as per residential.

Cheers

Andy

Andy Robinson
Andy_J_Robinson at blueyonder.co.uk 

>-----Original Message-----
>From: Etienne [mailto:80n80n at gmail.com]
>Sent: 19 July 2006 16:42
>To: tgomas
>Cc: Andy Robinson; talk at openstreetmap.org
>Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] Map Features tagging question
>
>I consider highway=residential to be a short-cut form of
>highway=unclassified, abutters=residential.
>
>Probably about 80% of roads fall into this category so it is a very useful
>and worthwhile short-cut.
>
>Etienne
>
>
>On 7/19/06, tgomas <tgomas at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>	> >-----Original Message-----
>	> >From: Nick Whitelegg [mailto:nick at hogweed.org]
>	> >
>	> >On Wednesday 19 Jul 2006 10:15, you wrote:
>	> >> I'd just tag those as "footway". That's what I've been doing
for
>all the
>	> >> well trodden paths across land I turn up
>	> >>
>	> >
>	> >Should this be the case even if they have horse rights?
>	> >
>	> >Nick
>	> 2006/7/19, Andy Robinson < Andy_J_Robinson at blueyonder.co.uk>:
>	> I don't see why not. The designation is more for establishing what
>the
>	> feature looks like when rendered. You are already tagging
>additionally to
>	> note what is permissive and what is not.
>	>
>	> Cheers
>	>
>	> Andy
>	>
>
>	But the same feature may looks like a footway for you and like a
>	bridleway for me. So what? Is the first one writing the "highway"
tag
>	considered as being true?
>
>	I think we mixed up several things in this tag like the size and the
>	nature. I'm sure that separating all the characteristics of a
feature
>	in separate attributes will be too heavy to maintain, but perhaps is
>	it possible to extract some things from the "highway" tag.
>
>	Another example is the "residential" case:
>	I don't see any difference between "highway=minor,
>	abutters=residential" and "highway=residential". It's confusing
since
>	some roads with tag "highway=secondary"   have too the
>	"abutters=residential" tag.
>
>	regards,
>	tGomas
>
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