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

[Mike Harris]

I did some of that mapping (especially the off-road) and would defend most if not all of the road tagging - there is nothing wrong with 'unclassified' when it goes between villages or between parts of a village and does not have much in the way of continuous housing. Take a look at Google Earth or similar satellite imagery and see whether you would agree - bearing in mind that I live only about 25 km from there! (;>)

Mike Harris
 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Valent Turkovic [mailto:valent.turkovic at gmail.com] 
> Sent: 16 September 2009 19:56
> To: talk at openstreetmap.org
> Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] highway=residential for rural ways?
> 
> 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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