I am pretty sure that I am one of the mappers that have used residential_link as a highway value in cases where there was a separate way for making a right turn from one residential road to another.
If the two roads the connecting way links are tagged as residential I don’t see any other choice than to use residential_link. I don’t think that service works for that (and some routers only allow passage over a service way at the ends of a route so that would mess them up). And tagging it with a higher classification (e.g. tertiary_link) makes no sense to me either. The only alternative would be to tag it as residential which seems to lose some meaning to me as the ones I can think of are too short to have residences on them. -Tod N76 on OSM > On Nov 9, 2015, at 10:37 PM, Andrew Guertin <[email protected]> wrote: > > A question recently came up as to whether highway=residential_link is a > meaningful tag or whether uses of it should be changed to some other value > (like highway=residential or highway=service). > > This tag has no description in the wiki, though it is analogous to the other > highway=*_link types described on > https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Highway_link . > > There are only 23 current uses of the tag, but many others were recently > removed. By going through (by hand) the recent edits of an editor who removed > them, I've come up with a list of 58 more objects that used it [1]. If anyone > knows of a programmatic way of finding objects that previously used a tag, > I'd be interested to know it. > > Of those 81 current and recent uses that I worked with, > * They occurred in North America (36), South America (30), Europe (11), and > Australia (4) > * 35 were added in 2015, 38 were added in 2014, and the remaining 8 were > added in 2010-2013 > * I count 33 unique users that added the tag > * 19 of the uses had a value for name="*", 62 did not have a name > > * Of the 36 North American uses, I personally think highway=residential_link > makes sense on 16 of them, while 12 should be a higher highway=*_link and 8 > should not be a _link at all. > > > highway=residential_link is not currently rendered in openstreetmap-carto, > and a request for adding it in February 2015 was declined > (https://github.com/gravitystorm/openstreetmap-carto/issues/1280), due to low > usage and being undocumented. That bug mentions that it is supported in > various routing apps, and it WAS supported in the HOT map style until that > support was removed recently. > > > So the question is, should uses of highway=residential_link be edited away, > should they be left as-is (unless a different highway type is clearly > better), or should the tag be approved and documented? > > > --Andrew > > > > > > [1] Objects that previously used highway=residential_link. This list was > generated by hand, and might have some mistakes. Also, not all of these > necessarily should have used the tag. > > 275610032, 275610033, 275610026, 275610025, 275355353, 269193467, 268796394, > 262798921, 262715792, 262287021, 259433293, 259433291, 259136210, 256321591, > 256321612, 256256231, 82529183, 256250694, 256250692, 255858772, 255734560, > 255734548, 255734547, 255734546, 255285030, 255282915, 255282916, 242373220, > 240563513, 238260570, 237128774, 222995985, 318225690, 219160095, 200773019, > 191613798, 183497432, 174739362, 174739436, 173790274, 152304285, 95348547, > 87908508, 87908510, 87908507, 83285340, 54356292, 54356293, 45812108, > 45812107, 39722340, 35248433, 148015236, 35242001, 35121698, 35121488, > 18820600, 6086632, 6107802, > > > > On 11/09/2015 01:39 AM, GerdP wrote: >> I think this should really be discussed in the tagging list. >> I only know a discussion in Germany which came to the >> conclusion that tags like unclassified_link, residential_link and >> service_link make not much sense: >> http://forum.openstreetmap.org/viewtopic.php?id=26083 >> The wiki doesn't mention those _link types as well, and my >> understanding is that only major roads have a link (if link >> in english means what we call "Abfahrt/ Auffahrt" in Germany, >> I would describe it as a lane that allows to decrease/increase >> speed. > > > > _______________________________________________ > Tagging mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
