[OSM-talk] How to tag small city alley ?

Ben Laenen benlaenen at gmail.com
Tue May 26 11:29:42 BST 2009


On Tuesday 26 May 2009, Jacek Konieczny wrote:
> On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 09:56:42AM +0200, Ivan Garcia wrote:
> > Hi Peter, which your approach, I believe that the render by osm
> > will be the same than a normal residential street
>
> No, I guess, it will have a red dashed transparent line drawn over
> it, meaning „restricted access”. No more details, though.
>
> And I guess it should be rather highway=service than
> highway=residental. That changes rendering a bit too (it is narrower
> in Mapnik IIRC).

What was that again with the "don't tag for the renderer" meme? :-)

It's clearly a public road so you shouldn't use highway=service here.

Ben




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