Anthony <o...@inbox.org> writes: > Thanks. In this case I think recognizing that the way is part of a > roundabout is probably sufficient. A large portion of roundabouts > don't have names, right?
I think that's true. Really what the rules and lint tags are about is
expressing a rule that is true sufficiently often ('roads of
highway={motorway,trunk,primary,secondary,tertiarty,unclasssified,residential}
that aren't roundabouts have names') that it becomes rational to add a
lint:name=nocheck tag.
> But I've come across situations where the unnamed road is not a
> roundabout, though. In one of these cases I used
> highway=unclassified, because it was just a dirt road that was really
> just a shared driveway (it was imported from TIGER because it used to
> be a real road).
here, the question is the road's legal status. If it's a private or
public way going to houses, it would be highway=residential. If it's
really a driveway legally now, highway=service service=driveway, or
highway=track if it's really atrocious. MassGIS data has a lot of
driveways showing up as ways that got mapped to residential, and I've
been fixing them in my town.
> That stopped the maplint warning. But in another
> case it was just a residential road that connected two other roads,
> which according to the county records doesn't have a name, so I think
> highway=residential is the right way to tag it. I'd want to go out
> there and make sure there's no sign before adding lint:name=nocheck.
> But once I've done that it'd be nice to tag it so that no one else has
> go through the same work I've just done.
100% agreed. Sort of related, there is a road in my town called "No
Name Road". It didn't used to, but the legend is that the phone company
labeled it no name on a map and then it stuck. There's now an official
sign and it's really the legal name: http://osm.org/go/ZfIcBcgLF-
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