[OSM-talk] Map Features tagging question

Andy Robinson Andy_J_Robinson at blueyonder.co.uk
Wed Jul 19 17:22:13 BST 2006


Etienne [mailto:80n80n at gmail.com] wrote:
>Sent: 19 July 2006 17:16
>To: Andy Robinson
>Cc: talk at openstreetmap.org
>Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] Map Features tagging question
>
>On 7/19/06, Andy Robinson <Andy_J_Robinson at blueyonder.co.uk> wrote:
>
>	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
>
>
>Unclassified for anything that isn't a Motorway,  A road or B road.  Unless
>its residential.
>
>
>
>	2. residential - for highways within the unclassified "block"
>
>
>Any unclassified road that is bordered on one or both sides by houses.  If
>a country road has a row of say 5 or 10 houses somewhere then I would
>probably tag that part as residential.
>
>
>
>	23. service - for those bits of road that link to things but don't
>really fit
>	with anything else. I render these as per residential.
>
>
>I've not used service for anything, but its a useful classification.
>
>I have used highway=unsurfaced for roads that do not have tarmac, but are
>used by vehicles and are more than a footway or bridlepath.

This might also fit as a "byway"


>
>I also think there should be something that describes roads that are just
>for access - that don't really go anywhere but lead to a farm or industrial
>site, or go through a car park or something.  Not sure whether this is the
>same as a service road though.

That was really what I used the service tag for. It services something, an
access road therefore, industrial estate roads being a good example. I was
using the same yesterday to do the roads leading in and around a railway
station and its car parking.


>
>Etienne
>


Cheers

Andy

Andy Robinson
Andy_J_Robinson at blueyonder.co.uk 







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