Greg Troxel <g...@ir.bbn.com> wrote:

> I think the underlying problem is that there's a big gap between
> tertiary, which should be a road that really is used to go somewhere
> and
> residential, which more or less means a road that you wouldn't care
> about unless you destination is on or very near it.

An additional complication is that many residential neighborhoods, at least in 
suburbia, are laid out in a tree, rather than grid, structure.  So, you have 
roads that are both tertiary (used to reach other, lesser roads) and 
residential (lined with residences).  Some mappers are likely to tag this as 
tertiary, some as residential.  In my case, I live on a street that has 
residences on one side, offices on the other, and is sometimes used as a 
through route connecting two larger, more-heavily-trafficked streets.

-- 
John F. Eldredge -- j...@jfeldredge.com
"Reserve your right to think, for even to think wrongly is better than not to 
think at all." -- Hypatia of Alexandria

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