Liz <ed...@...> writes: > > On Tue, 11 Aug 2009, John Smith wrote: > > The current use of highway=residential/highway=unclassified is almost on > > par with what the germans use it for, it is the lowest road used for the > > interconnecting grid, residential is usually the lowest in towns/cities and > > track is the lowest everywhere. > > > > Can someone suggest changes to the tagging guidelines to make this clear? > > > > I'm not saying you shouldn't use residential if you think it's residential, > > but if the road is wider and more used than residential, but less than > > tertiary this seems to be what happens else where and if we leave things as > > is on the wiki people are tagging rural roads as residential. > > What it says on the wiki under 'stralya for rural is unclassified for "other > named rural roads" > and for urban > "other streets, not generally through roads" > > seems clear enough to me > > but it may not be clear enough to others
I always understood that: use residential along normal urban/town residential roads; truck/primary etc. for appropriate urban/ A+B+C rural roads; for all other rural roads and urban roads in industrial estates etc. use unclassified. The Melways uses local roads as the lowest form of paved roads, but I think OSM splits this with residential local roads as highway=residential & all other local roads are highway=unclassified. BlueMM _______________________________________________ Talk-au mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au
