On Tue, May 24, 2016 at 5:18 PM, Paul Johnson <ba...@ursamundi.org> wrote:
> In the American context, this is an edge case, big time. > > What is old is new again. Officer housing at old Fort Hamilton (Brooklyn, the Narrows) were laid out with a Livable Street design before that was a name. (They had service alley or mews in the rear and grassy forecourts. The officers were expected to walk to work on-base in the 1880's - 1910's.) I am familiar with this because my favorite (maternal) uncle's favorite (maternal) uncle lived off-post/on-post in old Officers Quarters after the base perimeter had contracted but it was still Officer country (1928-1930) ... he lived on the eponymous Hamilton Way [1] which is coded highway=footway [2] , which page on our wiki suggests highway=pedestrian [3] if wider, and cross-references [4] Path Controversy. (Per OSM, the house still stands.) I would lean towards livable_street, since there's no separate sidewalk, > no reasonable expectation you're going to go more than cycleway speed, and > the main entries to buildings are on it > While 'livable street' is an Urban Design term of at for the concept in some areas, I don't see it in OSM wiki or taginfo ? [5] . OSM seems to use the similar highway=living_street [6] for low speed limits, pedestrian as primary but not exclusive, which doesn't seem to be the case in the grassy-and-walk shared front yards shown by the original question on thread here (but without Mews/alley in rear). The living_street examples in OSM wiki appear to be extreme traffic calming to restore in-street playability to 1950s suburban, 1930s urban level but still tolerate commuter cars returning home and a UPS delivery through the street-ball play, which is not the feature exhibited by original post. [1] http://www.openstreetmap.org/way/5677149 [2] http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:highway=footway?uselang=en-US [3] http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:highway%3Dpedestrian [4] http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Path_controversy [5a] https://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/search?q=livable#values [5b] https://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/search?q=livable_street#values [5c] https://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/search?q=pedestrian#values [6a] http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:highway=living_street [6b] http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/Tag:living_street%3Dyes
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