Tod Fitch wrote on 2015-11-10 06:57:
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'm skeptical about highway=residential_link as it further fragments the usage of the highway key. I prefer to consider highway=service for the lowest category of car-drivable roads, not just at the end of a route. It could be further specified as service=residential_link if you want. > 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). Which routers are this, and what is the reason for such decision? If the service road has a sufficient penalty, it would only be preferred over a longer road if it provides a significant shortcut. > And tagging it > with a higher classification (e.g. tertiary_link) makes no sense to me either. Certainly not of course. However I even consider those short connections of dual carriageways, that allow the occasional u-turn, or accessing a property on the other side, as service roads and not as abc_link.
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.
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