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

[USHAKOV, Sergey]

Hi again and thanks to everyone who responded.

Meanwhile I've got a feeling that I was maybe not clear enough in
formulating my problem, and Ævar seems to get most close to my idea. Please
let me formulate the problem in other words.

In Russia traffic regulations make no difference (besides naming terms)
betwen named streets marked with "Residential Area" sign and un-named alleys
in residential areas that are not required to be marked with that sign. I
guess that at least some of other countries may have similar regulations.

With this in mind I would propose to tag as 'living_street" any street/alley
that allows hybrid (pedestrian/vehicle) traffic with pedestrian priority,
and the 'name' tag being optional for these objects. Does this make sense?

To Ævar: creation of 'talk-ru' mailing list seems desirable as was already
mentioned on the Russian forum as a limitation. BTW, wiki RU namespace is
also still pending (
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Talk:Wiki#multilingual_name_spaces )
despite of significant activity. Can you help in getting it created?

Regards,
Sergey


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason" <avarab at gmail.com>
To: "USHAKOV, Sergey" <ushakov at int.com.ru>
Cc: <talk at openstreetmap.org>
Sent: Saturday, June 06, 2009 5:02 PM
Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] Is 'name' tag mandatory for a 'living_street'?


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?