[OSM-talk] Residential areas

[Dean Earley]

matthew-osm at newtoncomputing.co.uk wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 31, 2006 at 05:40:26PM +0000, SteveC wrote:
>> * @ 31/10/06 04:14:48 PM 80n80n at gmail.com wrote:
>>> Tom
>>> I am now tagging streets as highway=unclassified instead of
>> Is this not illogical? (eg, it _is_ classified) can we not keep
>> highway=residential but just drop the abutters?
> 
> Generally residential roads are not classified (they are C-prefix roads, which
> are county-wide, not country-wide, allocated).

They aren't though..

According to my local council, pretty much all the residential roads 
around here are U something:
http://maintainedhighways.hants.gov.uk/results.asp?road=&roadno=U&district=EASTLEIGH&submit=Search

C roads do exist and ARE classified:
http://maintainedhighways.hants.gov.uk/results.asp?road=&roadno=C&district=EASTLEIGH&submit=Search

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