> Sometimes you have frontage roads who mostly don’t give local access. Example 
> http://www.openstreetmap.org/?mlat=39.47925&mlon=-0.45146#map=17/39.47925/-0.45146
>  Here the mapper decided to use “tertiary”. The road has mostly 
> through-traffic. I would not make a strict rule for all cases, but just leave 
> this up to the local mappers to decide.

Ah, I understand. A frontage road is any parallel road for local access, which 
is normally bypassed by the larger road. Tertiary is perfect for your example.  
I guess these frontage "alleys" in Japan are really small and cut up (less than 
100m or so long, and dead-end to nothing). 

Javbw


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