[OSM-talk] Residential areas

[SteveC]

* @ 31/10/06 05:59:35 PM 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?
> 
> I agree.
> 
> Generally residential roads are not classified (they are C-prefix roads, which
> are county-wide, not country-wide, allocated). Having said that, I have started
> to use the landuse= tag, but still leave housing estates as highway=residential.

Oh I didn't realise that. They don't all have numbers do they?!

have fun,

SteveC steve at asklater.com http://www.asklater.com/steve/