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

[Mike Harris]

"Yes, Dorothy, some people DO reside in the country."

So I regularly use highway=residential 'out-of-town' where a road is minor,
does not go anywhere in particular and has residences (houses) along it at
least to some extent (unless it was unsurfaced and so rough as to merit
nothing more then =track). If the road is minor and has no houses other than
the occasional isolated house or farm I would normally tag
highway=unclassified (bigger roads - either more important or physically
bigger - but let's not get back into THAT debate!) I would tag =tertiary,
=secondary, etc.

As a rule of thumb I believe this to be broadly similar to UK Ordnance
Survey practice in using yellow coloration for most of the roads OSM would
usually call unclassified or tertiary and white for most of the roads (rural
or otherwise) that OSM would usually call residential (whether urban or
rural). Clearly there cannot (and should not) be a 1:1 correspondence with
OS practice - but it is sometimes useful to look at it for comparative
purposes.

There are so many different wiki pages relating to the highway tag that I
hardly would know which one to update! (Least of all in the middle of voting
on a more general aspect).

Mike Harris
 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Valent Turkovic [mailto:valent.turkovic at gmail.com] 
> Sent: 16 September 2009 13:26
> To: Talk Openstreetmap
> Subject: [OSM-talk] highway=residential for rural ways?
> 
> Hi,
> should highway=residential be used only in cities or also for 
> rural ways?
> 
> Currently:
> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tagging_samples/out_of_town
> 
> I see that residential roads aren't supposed to be used 
> outside of towns, is that right or wiki needs an update?
> 
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