Hi Stephen, You've highlighted two grey areas I often struggle with. On Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 6:01 PM, Stephen Hope <slh...@gmail.com> wrote: > First, I've recently done a couple of roads in the country. They're > either dead end roads or form some sort of web but are not connecting > roads in the sense that they go anywhere else in particular. One > example is about three or four km long, and has about 5 farms and a > few smaller properties on it. How would you tag that? It's not what I > would call a residential area, though obviously a few people do live > there.
Probably the simplest distinction is that various programs treat "unclassified" as a fast country road (eg, 100+kph), and "residential" as a quiet residential street (eg, 50-60kph). Take your pick. > The other extreme is lanes in places like retirement villages and > caravan parks. These are definitely residential areas, but are not > full blown roads, usually only one lane wide and private roads, not > publicly owned. Often with little or no curbing, etc. It feels wrong > to just be marking them as residential. There's a continuum with these. Sometimes what looks like a retirement village or something is just a housing development, just like any other street but all built in the same style, by one construction company. If the houses have public street addresses (eg, 46 Jones St), I make them highway=residential. If they're addressed within the context of the development/retirement village/caravan park (eg, lot 15, Jones Park), I'd use something like highway=service. You do have to be careful not to see a narrow street and immediately leap at highway=service. Steve _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
