Exactly. From a routing point of view, if you encounter a residential road, little can be deducted with certaointy from that tag. E.g. live very near a residential road, where along the length are lots of houses, but these are shielded by ridges, bushes and separate cycleways so traffic is not impaired by that, except where there are crossings and traffic signs.
Vr gr Peter Elderson Op wo 20 feb. 2019 om 13:45 schreef Paul Allen <pla16...@gmail.com>: > On Wed, 20 Feb 2019 at 12:25, Peter Elderson <pelder...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> >> Residential just means it has housing along the road. >> > > That doesn't necessarily work the other way around. My part of the world > has a lot of > ribbon villages: a small number of houses (typically around 10)clustered > along a > road connecting two towns/villages. That road might be a primary, > secondary or tertiary > route, a minor road or an unclassified road. I wouldn't classify it as > residential even when, > as in some cases, speed limits are lowered where it passes through the > village. > > In the same way, there is a secondary route passing through the centre of > my town. If it > weren't also a secondary route it would be classed as residential, but > it's a secondary route and > referred to as such on maps. > > OTOH, there are many residential roads in my town which aren't dead ends. > Which means you > can use them to avoid the secondary route passing through town. That > doesn't make them an > unclassified route, though. > > -- > Paul > > _______________________________________________ > Tagging mailing list > Tagging@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging >
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