[OSM-talk] highway=residential_link

[Paul Johnson]

On Wed, Nov 11, 2015 at 3:41 PM, Mateusz Konieczny <matkoniecz at gmail.com>
wrote:

> On Wed, 11 Nov 2015 04:33:57 -0600
> Paul Johnson <baloo at ursamundi.org> wrote:
>
> > On Tue, Nov 10, 2015 at 2:36 AM, Mateusz Konieczny
> > <matkoniecz at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > On Mon, 9 Nov 2015 22:36:28 -0500
> > > Andrew Guertin <andrew.guertin at uvm.edu> wrote:
> > >
> > > > So the question is, should uses of highway=residential_link be
> > > > edited away, should they be left as-is (unless a different
> > > > highway type is clearly better), or should the tag be approved
> > > > and documented?
> > >
> > > Can somebody give examples of locations where residential_link makes
> > > sense?
> >
> >
> >  http://www.openstreetmap.org/way/262287021
> >
> > No frontage, only exists to tie four ways together around a tree in a
> > non-roundabout fashion.  Only the highway=residential ways are signed
> > on the ground.
>
> I am on a different continent, so I may only StreetView - but I would
> tag something like that as highway=residential and I see no gain
> whatsoever from using residential_link.
>
>
> https://www.google.pl/maps/@36.1243396,-95.9812983,3a,75y,163.91h,76.29t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1shsZ4_4xjBRqp_xFsxqtTwg!2e0!7i13312!8i6656?hl=en
>

The loop behind the tree has no frontage or name and only serves as part of
the intersection between 27th Place, 28th Street and Cincinatti Avenue.
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