On Sat, Dec 10, 2011 at 8:11 PM, Sam Couter <s...@couter.id.au> wrote:
> Peter Watson <peter.bmwk7...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I have a fairly narrow view on what a residential road is in Aust. 1. Is > in a > > built up area or suburb, 2. Has 50km/h or less speed limit. 3. Has house > blocks > > on at least one side. I find so many roads in the maps which are out of > town, > > have acre blocks or farms on them and have been tagged by the maxspeed > bot as > > 50km/h because they have been tagged residential. These roads often have > > speedlimits of 60 or higher. I think these should be tagged > unclassified. What > > do other mappers think. > > Many urban residential roads have speed limits of 60 or maybe 70km/h. I > think > rural roads with moderately dense residential acre blocks and 80km/h speed > limits are still residential, unless they're also the main route to a > neighbouring town, in which case they're tertiary. > -- > Sam Couter | mailto:s...@couter.id.au > OpenPGP fingerprint: A46B 9BB5 3148 7BEA 1F05 5BD5 8530 03AE DE89 C75C > > I live on a "residential street" that has a 60km/h speed limit and so this street is not tagged as a residential street. It is used as at short cut for people in ajoining suburbs. Also in industrial areas the speed limit is generally 60Km/h so I don't think they fit the bill. I partly came to this view because rural roads were being wrongly tagged with 50km/h speed limits which they rarely are. I have been looking around my suburb but there are no 50km/h signs either so can be tricky to know, especially if tracing. Peter W
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