On Sat, 29 Aug 2009 09:32:27 +0100, "Mike Harris" wrote: >> However, after careful vetting, one of us found that law >> already says what I have suspected - backstreet streets are >> living streets by definition. > > > The law may say that in ?Poland? (apologies if I've guessed the wrong > Slavic language) - but I don't think it does in - for example - England. > Here, I have hardly ever - if ever - seen a 'living street' - at least as I > understand the wiki definition. I tend to use =residential for the > backstreets (assuming they have vehicular access). Am I wrong? Am I alone > in this? > Living streets are quite common in the Netherlands and some other countries and signposted specifically. They are residential streets where the maxspeed is very low (at least less then 30km/h). In some laws this is defined by a hard speedlimit e.g. 15km/h and in some other as a definition e.g. "walking pace". Additionally there are rules that say that e.g. pedestrians always have right of way over cars.
This definition seens certainly to be different from a "backstreet". The tag living_street should not be used for cases where it is "just a small backstreet in a residential area". There are other tags that could be used for tagging those, e.g. width. _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
