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

[Liz]

On Wed, 5 Aug 2009, Jonathan Bennett wrote:
> > In addition the "Australian Tagging Guidelines" (which Liz mentioned  
> > were written a year before the residential page) explicitly disagree  
> > with the residential page.
>
> I've done some investigation on this specific point, and found the
> following:
>
> The edit which added the current definition of residential roads to that
> page was made on 2nd January 2008
> (http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php?title=Australian_Tagging_Guideline
>s&diff=67689&oldid=66241) by Lakeyboy in an edit with no summary. I can find
> no discussion of this change on the wiki talk page or Talk-AU beforehand.

I have not heard back from lakeyboy yet to answer the implicit question, whose 
answer I believe will either be 
convention already adopted in AU
or
decided by meeting of mappers in Melbourne

however, at that point, Jan 08, the concept was written.
The Tag:highway=residential page was started on 4 April 08
-
  unclassified - a wider road used by through traffic
  

  -
  residential - a narrower road generally used only by people that live on 
that road or roads that branch off it.
and was last edited 4 August 09
* '''unclassified''' - a road used by through traffic
 '''residential''' - a road generally used only by people that live on that 
road or roads that branch off it.
to remove narrower and wider