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

Valent Turkovic valent.turkovic at gmail.com
Wed Sep 16 19:56:17 BST 2009


On Wed, 16 Sep 2009 14:34:28 +0100, Nick Whitelegg wrote:

> My understanding is that rural roads ("country lanes" as they are called
> in the UK) should be highway=unclassified. However if there is a small
> housing estate or residential road in a village, it should be
> highway=residential.

I took a random look at UK:
http://www.openstreetmap.org/?
lat=52.79617&lon=-0.03229&zoom=15&layers=B000FTF

and it seams like unclassified tag is also used in villages/towns, 
generally overused... IMHO.



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