> Subject: Re: [OSM-newbies] newbies Digest, Vol 33, Issue 25 > To: [email protected] > Message-ID: > <[email protected]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 > > On Sat, Nov 14, 2009 at 8:43 PM, Aspen Swartz <[email protected]> wrote: >> I think my personal conclusion after thinking about this way too much, >> is that living street should be deprecated, and tagged instead as >> highway=pedestrian and type=living street. ?It's clearly too specific, >> to the people familiar with it, to be used outside of Europe. >> > > As it was explained in some previous posts, the main difference > between pedestrian and living street is the access or not for motor > vehicules. "Living street" is a legal status created in some european > countries to have something between the residential areas with a > reduced speed limit (usually 30kmh instead of the default 50 kmh in > urban zones) and pedestrian streets not accessible for cars. But the > rules are not always exactly the same for all countries (e.g. the > speed limit of a living street). It is free for other countries to use > it if they have a similar status. > Have also a look on this wiki page for country-specific access restrictions: > http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/OSM_tags_for_routing/Access-Restrictions > > Pieren
Ah, that is clearer to me. Not sure why I didn't get it earlier. I think the wiki could use some clarification on it. Thank you. Aspen _______________________________________________ newbies mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/newbies
