[OSM-talk] Is 'name' tag mandatory for a 'living_street'?

Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason avarab at gmail.com
Sat Jun 6 14:02:42 BST 2009


2009/6/6 USHAKOV, Sergey <ushakov at int.com.ru>:
> the wiki page http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:highway%3Dliving_street
> suggests that 'living_street' objects should be attributed with a 'name'
> tag. Meanwhile it is not uncommon for residential areas to have unnamed
> alleys inside, and the latter may form a complicated network that deserves
> being documented and rendered on the map.
>
> Is it appropriate/advisable to use 'living_street' objects for these unnamed
> alleys? Another candidate might be 'service', but to my mind 'service' is
> not good as does not reflect pedestrians' priority...

You shouldn't use living street for some unnamed alleys unless they
actually are living streets. Of course if you find an un-named living
street you should tag it as such, but living streets are hybrid
pedestrian/motorcar streets with specific rules depending on
countries.

The wiki suggests that this is called "Жилая зона (Zhilaya zona)" in
Russian, you should probably only use living street for things that
are classified as such.

I also note that there isn't a talk-ru mailing list yet, maybe you (or
other russian users) would be interested in having one?




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