On 11/07/2008 09:43, Steve Hill wrote: > On Thu, 10 Jul 2008, Martijn van Oosterhout wrote: > >> I don't want to be annoying, but what about the ordinary roads, which >> don't fit in the above classification. With houses on both side but >> limited to 50km/h for example. > > Well, this is why I don't like the highway=residential tag.
I don't see the problem in that example: highway=residential maxspeed=50 (though in the UK, tghat would be 30mph, which is the default anyway, so the description is the perfect example of highway=residential). If the speed limit were higher (or even if it wasn't), that might well be because it is a more significant road in the first place, perhaps a local distributor which is still residential but has greater local significance. As several of us said yesterday, in the absence of visible official designation, that's a subjective judgement, but in that case, I would use highway=tertiary abutters=residential maxspeed=... (and personally, I use units - maxspeed=40mph - but that's another discussion we've already done to death; and I haven't been as rigorous as I should have been in recording non-default speed limits). David _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/talk
