I usually tag such roads in rural areas as highway=unclassified. I would use highway=residential for towns, suburbs or outer-suburban areas with residential housing or large housing blocks up to about 2 hectares - where the landuse is primarily residential or other urban use such as commercial.
In rural areas, the land is usually used for agricultural or other purposes, with a few buildings on each farm. I would not regard this as residential and I would use the "unclassified" tag. On Fri, 2 Oct 2020, at 2:43 PM, Little Maps wrote: > Hi everyone, I was reviewing highway tags in south-central NSW > (initially to add in missing paved and unpaved tags) and noted that > road classification differ greatly between adjacent local gov areas. In > central Federation Shire Council, north of Mulwala and Corowa, the bulk > of rural roads are tagged as residential whereas in all surrounding > LGAs they are tagged as unclassified, as shown in this Overpass query: > http://overpass-turbo.eu/s/YCa > > > (the query shows 4 adjacent LGAs, with the Federation Shire in the > lower centre). > > > This is a rural cropping /grazing region, not a densely settled > irrigation area. Is it appropriate to re-tag the rural "residential" > roads as "unclassified'' for consistency, after inspecting each on > satellite images, leaving residential roads in and around small towns > only? Thanks for your help, Ian > > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-au mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au > _______________________________________________ Talk-au mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au
