On 2017.09.13. 16:13, Andrew Matheny wrote: > I agree with everything Greg has said. > > In the US, whether you tag a highway residential or service should > generally be determined by its function, not its access. > > In the case of a gated community of single family homes, the named > streets serve the same function as named streets in other non-gated > single family neighborhoods. Hence I would tag those highway=residential > and then access=private. Then service for any driveways or alleys. > > In the cases of other residential uses it would depend on the context. > > For townhome or other single-family attached dwellings with named roads > that resemble detached single-family neighborhoods, I'd still tag as > residential. > > On Trailer parks, I could be convinced to go with either residential or > service depending on the trailer park. Some are built like high density > single family neighborhoods and have named streets, in which case I > would use a residential tag. When I've seen some (usually smaller) > trailer parks where the highways resemble driveways more than they do > streets, I've given those service tags.
if those roads/streets are indeed rather big, residential is a good tag. if they are a bit smaller/windy, i'd go for "service" on all of them - for example, the areas here : http://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=17/30.40357/-97.70845&layers=N > I could also go either way on multi-family developments (like > garden-style apartment complexes), but usually I go with highway=service > because they function more like the interior roads of a shopping center > or business park even though they are technically residential uses. > Access tags are added when appropriate. > > -Andrew > > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-us mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us > -- Rihards _______________________________________________ Talk-us mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us

