yes, a missing name should be no reason for a highway=residential_link. During the last days I've reviewed the remaining highway=residential_link roads, a few of them are quite special, so I fully understand that mappers have the idea that residential might not be correct, esp. when they believe that a residential road requires buildings close to it, which in my eyes is also not mandantory.
So, I see two possibilities: 1) change the wiki(s) and validators to make absolutely clear that the _link suffix should not be used with other than the major roads which are now documented or 2a) change the wiki(s) to tolerate suffix _link for all types of minor ways (also footway, service etc) with the advice to use them for - roads that split at junctions - shortcuts before junctions (both with pictures) - maybe more ? without forcing this suffix for those roads. 2b) tell data consumers, QA tools etc. to treat the roads similar to those without the suffix. pro 1): easy to do contra 1): many users will not care about what is written in a wiki, so edit wars are possible pro 2) : less confusing for those who like the duck test (if there is a tertiary_link there should also be a xyz_link) contra 2): more work for many people, hard to verify reg. 2b) So, my proposal: Let's do 1) and I'll try to keep an eye on Taginfo to warn mappers when they use the _link suffix for a minor road as long as we don't implement some kind of automatism for that. Gerd ________________________________________ Von: Michał Brzozowski <www.ha...@gmail.com> Gesendet: Mittwoch, 11. November 2015 10:21 An: Tag discussion, strategy and related tools Betreff: Re: [Tagging] highway=residential_link On Tue, Nov 10, 2015 at 9:50 PM, Joachim <nore...@freedom-x.de> wrote: > Using no link gives many warning in QA tools. Using > highway=residential plus noname=yes might be a workaround in the > current situation. This is not the only example when a residential road doesn't have a name. Keep in mind this is specifically why addr:place was invented - there are villages (in quite a few countries around Europe, for instance) when streets have no names, yet they are still residential. The QA software you use makes wrong assumptions. Michał _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
