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

[Andy Allan]

On Sat, May 30, 2009 at 5:41 AM, Paul Johnson <baloo at ursamundi.org> wrote:
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>>> Greg Troxel wrote:
>>>>   I'd agree that service isn't quite right, if that's the front of th=
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>>>>   buildings. But similarly residential isn't right either (I guess we=
>  all
>>>>   think of that as something with pavements/sidewalks).
>>> highway=3Dunclassified for now (and throw a fixme=3D tag explaining th=
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>>> situation on for good measure)
>>=20
>> nah, unclassified seems less correct than residential, as this IS a
>> residential street and just the width is less than what you would
>> expect (but this applies equally to unclassified).
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> My rationale for suggesting that being that there's clearly some
> confusion on what classification it should be.

Well highway="unclassified" is actually a specific classification,
highway="road" is for when we don't know the classification.

Don't shoot the messenger.

Cheers,
Andy