[OSM-talk] Residential areas

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On 2/19/07, David Earl <david at frankieandshadow.com> wrote:
> I hesitate to add this given the volume of correspondence on this particular
> subject and the flurry of email from me in the last couple of days, but....
>
> I don't much care how it is represented in the data, but I would very much
> like to see something that potentially renders as a more prominent
> residential or urban street - for example, like unclassified but with
> heavier or bolder edges. highway=unclassified + abutters=residential could
> be the keys that trigger this; or others have proposed a complicated grading
> system; and back in October I put a highway=urban proposal on the
> Proposed_features page for this.

I've been using "tertiary" for this.  In rural areas (here) tertiary
highway is an official designation.  In suburban / urban areas I'm
using tertiary to distinguish a road that is significantly 'more' than
a residential road, but 'less' than a "secondary".  I'm also using
"secondary" for urban arterial roads.

Here, you'll see Harbord Street (tertiary) here
http://www.informationfreeway.org/?lat=5413278.58805&lon=-8839325.3262&zoom=17&layers=B00

I much prefer the osmarender rendering of tertiary (tertiary =
residential) to the mapnik rendering (tertiary < residential) though
ideally, I'd prefer tertiary to look like it is residential < tertiary
< secondary, so that tertiary is visibly 'more' than residential.