[OSM-talk] residential and unclassified in Australia WAS definition of the main highway-tag

[James Livingston]

On 02/08/2009, at 9:56 PM, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote:
> yes. A residential road should be avoided if possible (slow, dangerous
> and noisy for residents / playing kids), while I don't see this in
> industrial or commercial context.

Not having been to Europe I can't say for sure, I wouldn't say that in  
Australia. I'd generally prefer residential over industrial roads,  
because the latter have more trucks, more variability in road  
condition (due to heavy vehicle damage), and the like.

In any case, if you have a router that does this kind of thing,  
wouldn't it be better to base it off landuse=residential/industrial?


On 03/08/2009, at 7:50 AM, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote:
> sorry, but I can't believe that. All roads in your country have the
> same width? The same minimum radius for curves?

They don't, but that's more to do with tertiary <-> residential/ 
unclassified than it's not really on an industrial/residential basis -  
what we tag as tertiary is different to what we tag as residential in  
both areas.


> (IMHO) residential:
> http://maps.google.it/maps?hl=de&ie=UTF8&ll=-37.675859,145.165879&spn=0.000252,0.000597&t=h&z=21
> (IMHO) unclassified (~25% wider in the aerial):
> http://maps.google.it/maps?hl=de&ie=UTF8&ll=-37.769521,145.02807&spn=0.000504,0.001195&t=h&z=21

Sure, and I can find a heap of examples where they're the same.