Hi again, looks like I have brought a lot of confusion in my previous posts by misuse of the word 'alley'. The latter seems to have too broad range of meanings, and many of them are not what I meant. Just compare http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alley (not good as a 'living_street') and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Alley.JpG (might probably be).
Please consider the following proposed definition for a 'living_street': 'living_street' is a: - pubic street or way - in a residential area - intended for mixed vehicle/pedestrian traffic - where vehicles have extra limitations and pedestrians have extra rights as compared to normal streets/ways (details depending on local legislation) - may optionally have a name as a street - may be optionally marked with "Residential Area" traffic sign where appropriate. Please kindly comment/criticize. Regards. Sergey ----- Original Message ----- From: "USHAKOV, Sergey" <usha...@int.com.ru> To: <talk@openstreetmap.org> Cc: "Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason" <ava...@gmail.com> Sent: Sunday, June 07, 2009 4:24 AM Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] Is 'name' tag mandatory for a 'living_street'? > Hi again and thanks to everyone who responded. > > Meanwhile I've got a feeling that I was maybe not clear enough in > formulating my problem, and Ævar seems to get most close to my idea. > Please > let me formulate the problem in other words. > > In Russia traffic regulations make no difference (besides naming terms) > betwen named streets marked with "Residential Area" sign and un-named > alleys > in residential areas that are not required to be marked with that sign. I > guess that at least some of other countries may have similar regulations. > > With this in mind I would propose to tag as 'living_street" any > street/alley > that allows hybrid (pedestrian/vehicle) traffic with pedestrian priority, > and the 'name' tag being optional for these objects. Does this make sense? > > To Ævar: creation of 'talk-ru' mailing list seems desirable as was already > mentioned on the Russian forum as a limitation. BTW, wiki RU namespace is > also still pending ( > http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Talk:Wiki#multilingual_name_spaces ) > despite of significant activity. Can you help in getting it created? > > Regards, > Sergey [...] _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk