On Wed, 5 Aug 2009, Jonathan Bennett wrote: > > In addition the "Australian Tagging Guidelines" (which Liz mentioned > > were written a year before the residential page) explicitly disagree > > with the residential page. > > I've done some investigation on this specific point, and found the > following: > > The edit which added the current definition of residential roads to that > page was made on 2nd January 2008 > (http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php?title=Australian_Tagging_Guideline >s&diff=67689&oldid=66241) by Lakeyboy in an edit with no summary. I can find > no discussion of this change on the wiki talk page or Talk-AU beforehand.
I have not heard back from lakeyboy yet to answer the implicit question, whose answer I believe will either be convention already adopted in AU or decided by meeting of mappers in Melbourne however, at that point, Jan 08, the concept was written. The Tag:highway=residential page was started on 4 April 08 - unclassified - a wider road used by through traffic - residential - a narrower road generally used only by people that live on that road or roads that branch off it. and was last edited 4 August 09 * '''unclassified''' - a road used by through traffic '''residential''' - a road generally used only by people that live on that road or roads that branch off it. to remove narrower and wider _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
