On Sunday 29 March 2009 03:37:15 Bill Ricker wrote: > On Sat, Mar 28, 2009 at 11:32 AM, Cartinus <[email protected]> wrote: > > When a road is not important (so it can't be classified as tertiary and > > above) and has no special "purpose" (so it's not residential or service) > > you're best of to tag it as highway=unclassified. The Mapnik layer on > > openstreetmap.org renders unclassified and residential the same. > > > > On Saturday 28 March 2009 16:00:00 doug brown wrote: > >> I am mapping an industrial park and cannot determine what tags to put on > >> the roads in this area. highway=residential is not appropriate as it is > >> misleading, though it would be desirable that the renderer produce a > >> similar symbol on the map. I have a similar issue with streets that are > >> primarily commercial. > >> > >> Some guidance please. > > An Industrial Park might well have Tertiary roads as its arteries if > so classified by government. Minor roads could be unclassified or > Service road. If unnamed, service road. > > We have a lot of Industrial roads mis-tagged Residential in > Massachusetts because that was the default for minor roads in the > MassGIS import. (Yes, Mass isn't Tiger.) Many of them are imported > nameless so they show up on QA Red, and the easy fix is to make them > Service Roads.
If it really is a service road, then by all means tag it as such. But the fact that it doesn't have a name doesn't make a road a service road to me. This sounds like a bad case of tagging for the "renderer". -- m.v.g., Cartinus _______________________________________________ newbies mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/newbies
