On Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 10:39 AM, Connors, Bernie (SNB) <[email protected]> wrote: > I am looking at the street tags for CFB Gagetown in Oromocto, New > Brunswick. Currently all of the streets are tagged residential. Of course > there are some military personnel that live on the base but the majority of > the roads I am looking at are not residential: > > > > http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=45.8424389362335&lon=-66.4528870582581&zoom=16 > > > > I have considered the following tags: service, minor, and tertiary but none > of them seem appropriate. Any suggestions?
highway=unclassified seems right. "unclassified" is a strange beast in OSM. it comes from the UK official road classification called "unclassified", or something. Seems a little weird, but there we are. As a practical matter, I use unclassified for the following. - a shorthand for "it's kind of like residential but without the houses" - roads of the public road network that are "least important" but not residential. So, minor commercial/light-industrial area roads. - when the residential / non-residential mix in a mixed use area leans more towards non-residential. I don't have local context for the area you mention, so take my experience with a grain or two of salt. For similar large areas, I would consider residential in the residential areas. unclassified elsewhere. tertiary for those roads that are more important within the area and for entrance / exit roads. And highway=service; (possibly also with service=driveway) for those ways that aren't even roads in the area. Though leaving the driveways and parking areas for somebody else to map is fine too. ;-) And marking the access restrictions either at the gates, or for all roads probably makes sense. Best regards, Richard _______________________________________________ Talk-ca mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ca
