On Thu, Feb 28, 2019 at 6:15 AM Volker Schmidt <vosc...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Wed, 27 Feb 2019 at 20:09, Fernando Trebien <fernando.treb...@gmail.com> > wrote: >> I think Lone Pine [2] would be interesting to discuss because it >> doesn't have any major routes linking larger places passing through >> it. The highways leading to it are currently highway=residential and >> should probably be highway=unclassified. >> >> > [2] https://www.openstreetmap.org/node/150932853 > > Country roads imported with the old TIGER imports are uniformly tagged > "residential". > And in many cases this is correct in the sense that they are typically used > to access property along them or in the neighbourhood.
I'm aware of the difficulties of data imports, so my remark is meant only as a reflection of what it should eventually become as mapping work progresses. > In the specific case, if you consult satellite imagery you will see many > dwellings along them. This isn't a very strong argument since many street/road types (from highway=pedestrian all the way up to highway=primary and sometimes even highway=trunk in remote areas) often have dwellings directly accessible from the road, especially within dense urban areas. However, this brings us back to the OP's question on whether highway=unclassified is its own hierarchical level between highway=residential and highway=tertiary or simply a description of a local road mostly not having any residences that should be considered at the same hierarchical level as highway=residential. The wiki describes them as the lowest level in the "interconnecting grid network," from which I understand that it is probably intended to work more like the idea of a "quaternary", from which one would expect it to fully connect to other unclassified/tertiary/secondary/... roads even when passing through urbanized areas with many directly accessible residences. -- Fernando Trebien _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
