Hi Blake, Thanks!
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. > ... > > 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. In cities, it's just a little hard to define boundaries of settlement. I agree with your definition. Would you agree that it implies that 'residential' is used relatively sparsely, i.e. where a road leads to a group of houses, or where a road is located inside a "gated" are, like an institution, university, school or residential community? > If you are local to Lusaka, you should connect up with Trudy Hope who > is also in Lusaka. > Yes :) We are in touch and met recently. Bjoern > On Wed, Jul 26, 2017 at 1:20 PM, Bjoern Hassler <bjohas...@gmail.com> > 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 > > HOT@openstreetmap.org > > 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/ >
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