Depending on the purpose of the road within the housing estate, any of highway=residential, highway=living_street or highway=service may be appropriate. It depends on what the road is used for: I tend to go with highway=residential by default, highway=living_street in estates where I know that the road is considered a shared pedestrian/car space (e.g. within the estate, pedestrians are considered to have equal or higher right of way to vehicles) and highway=service for things like delivery access roads. Local knowledge of the estate is essential to know which to go for.
As an example, see Wilderness Garden Estate in Wilderness. I used to go to the neighbouring Wilderness Dunes on holiday, and I know from my surveys that a mix of highway=living_street and highway=service is appropriate there. It's perfectly acceptable for a road to be unnamed (to go back to my example, the roads in Wilderness Dunes have no names), and it's perfectly acceptable for a service road to be named if there is a sign on the ground indicating such a name. If the road in question is indeed unnamed, consider use of the noname=* key which should take care of validation: note that noname=* should only be used in cases where it has been verified that there is genuinely no name, and that noname=* and name=* should be omitted entirely if the name is unknown (which is the point of those validation messages in the first place). On Sat, 29 Sep 2018 at 20:07, Damjan Jovanovic <damjan....@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi > > According to GeoFabrik (View: highways), a large number of roads in JHB > are missing street names. However most of these are highway=residential > roads in residential estates / townhouse complexes, that don't have names > anyway. > > Should we be using highway=service instead, inside residential estates? > > What about large estates that do have named streets? Should > highway=service roads be named or should we use a different highway type? > > Thank you > Damjan > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-ZA mailing list > Talk-ZA@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-za >
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