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> On 7. Aug 2019, at 13:26, Paul Allen <pla16...@gmail.com> wrote: > > As always, there are compromises to be made. But in much of the UK (and > probably > much of elsewhere) mapping a road that is both a tertiary (or higher) route > and which > also has houses along it as residential is not the best way of dealing with > the > problem. yes, the network of the connection grid can be observed inside settlements as well. In the typical case you can clearly observe a road hierarchy, examples for distinctive properties may be: right of way on crossings, signage, traffic lights, speed limits, road width/number of lanes, presence of through traffic, etc. Also the presence of shops and pubs may in some context indicate the principal road. Cheers Martin _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging