When a road is not important (so it can't be classified as tertiary and above) and has no special "purpose" (so it's not residential or service) you're best of to tag it as highway=unclassified. The Mapnik layer on openstreetmap.org renders unclassified and residential the same.
On Saturday 28 March 2009 16:00:00 doug brown wrote: > I am mapping an industrial park and cannot determine what tags to put on > the roads in this area. highway=residential is not appropriate as it is > misleading, though it would be desirable that the renderer produce a > similar symbol on the map. I have a similar issue with streets that are > primarily commercial. > > Some guidance please. -- m.v.g., Cartinus _______________________________________________ newbies mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/newbies
