On Mon, Mar 8, 2010 3:18 PM, James Ewen <[email protected]> wrote: > > GeoBase has one access road on one side of the road labelled as > Grandin Road, but on the other side of the road, it has no name. All > three roads are tagged as residential. I'm thinking that a routing > algorithm would not know any better, and might send someone down the > side road, rather than down the main throughway. > > What is the common ground on tagging these things? I would guess that > all these roads would get named Grandin Road, as the houses are all > addressed as Grandin Road. I was thinking that the 4 lane section get > bumped to tertiary as it is a collector road, and as such would be > more important than just a plain residential road. The side roads > could then stay as residential, or perhaps they would be better tagged > at a lower level? > > Tertiary for the main part of the roads seems reasonable to me.
Proper terminology for the side roads appears to be "frontage road" ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frontage_road). It should be tagged according to whatever the function of the frontage road is, which in this case is residential. http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:highway%3Dservice -Katie > > James > VE6SRV > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-ca mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ca > -- Katie Filbert @filbertkm
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