[OSM-talk] highway=residential for rural ways?

[Nick Whitelegg]

>My understanding was that Unclassified roads went somewhere and did
>not have a road number but were not up to Tertiary Standard (What ever
>that means) where as Residential Streets did not go anywhere and only
>had houses on them. bit like a living_street but where cars have
>priority really.

>Peter.

I would agree 100% with this definition.

While we're at it, one of my pet hates is "tertiary creep" where any and 
every rural road which goes somewhere gets labelled as highway=tertiary, 
even though it isn't exactly busy and/or a key through route.

Nick