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?
I wouldn't (although I know nobody asked me). What is the primary function of the roads you highlighted? Is it to access the houses that exist there, or is it to travel to other parts of the city? In many parts of the world, I'd argue, the primary function is to access the houses, although the secondary function could easily be as a member of the larger road network. Would that road exist if the houses weren't there? As others have said, the best way to find out is on the ground. But... I'd say that 2 general rules should apply: If unsure, don't change it; try to keep the data as simple as possible. There are currently 37.2 million residential ways in OSM. So not sparse and most likely a consensus exists already as to the meaning of residential. Cheers, Joseph On 26 July 2017 at 13:39, Bjoern Hassler <bjohas...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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/ >> > > > _______________________________________________ > HOT mailing list > HOT@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot > >
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