Thanks everyone for your fast replies. They are consistent with how roads in the neighbouring LGAs are tagged. I’ll updated the road tags in Federation Shire in the next couple of days to bring them in line with your feedback and nearby areas. Thanks again and have a good weekend, Ian
> On 2 Oct 2020, at 4:59 pm, cleary <[email protected]> wrote: > > > 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 _______________________________________________ Talk-au mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au
