On Sun, Aug 2, 2009 at 06:56, Martin Koppenhoefer<[email protected]> wrote: > 2009/8/2 Liz <[email protected]>: > >> So the question is: >> is there anything about a road inside an industrial or commercial area which >> would be important inside a renderer or a routing engine >> and is different to a residential road? > > yes.
> A residential road should be avoided if possible That's your opinion. If I'm in a car, I prefer residential areas to industrial ones. If I'm on foot or cycling, I prefer residential to any other class of road. > Furthermore industrial areas are > built according to standards that allow easy use with trucks, while in > residential areas you will more often have smaller streets and > straighter curves, which will cause problems to big trucks. In my part of the USA, the fire engine is the large vehicle of choice when designing roads, and it's about as big as un-manouverable as it gets. If your residential street isn't accessible to big trucks, people's houses burn down. The real issue here isn't trucks. It's that the prevailing standard of OSM is that unclassified is a higher level than residential, and that leaves no tag for places (including most everywhere I've been in the Americas, as well as, apparently, Australia) where roads in industrial areas not appreciably different from a residential street, but not abutted by houses. -- David J. Lynch [email protected] _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
