Hi Bjoern, Generally roads that are part of the larger road network infrastructure and serve as connections between settlements but also pass through those settlements are not down tagged to "residential" roads when they pass through settlements.
In looking over the wiki, I swear it used to say that secondary, tertiary and unclassifed tags were typically used in settlements for major roads, but I do not see that text anymore. Residential roads are roads whose primary function is access to housing. If the primary function of the road is to connect settlements and it just happens to pass through some residential area I generally leave it as the larger road classification. If the speed limit or other restrictions are placed on it when it passes through settlements, those can be added later as part of the local mapping and iterative refinement process. If you are local to Lusaka, you should connect up with Trudy Hope who is also in Lusaka. Cheers Blake On Wed, Jul 26, 2017 at 1:20 PM, Bjoern Hassler <[email protected]> wrote: > Dear friends, > > The roads near here (to the west) are all "residential": > https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/94058793 > > What's the view on residential roads within built-up areas? My view would be > that the roads are all "through-roads" and therefore should be > "Unclassified" rather than residential. > > What do you think? > Bjoern > > _______________________________________________ > HOT mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot > -- ---------------------------------------------------- Blake Girardot OSM Wiki - https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/User:Bgirardot HOTOSM Member - https://hotosm.org/users/blake_girardot skype: jblakegirardot Live OSM Mapper-Support channel - https://hotosm-slack.herokuapp.com/ _______________________________________________ HOT mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot
