2010/12/15 Steve Bennett <stevag...@gmail.com>: > I'm sorry, but no. This is not common practice, nor is it desirable. > Could we please not give advice which only reflects personal > preferences? > > Fwiw, highway=road is for when you know *nothing* about a road. Can > you tell me, hand on heart, that you would not tag this road: > > http://www.nearmap.com/?ll=-38.107325,145.15275&z=20&t=k&nmd=20101020 > > as highway=residential, maxspeed=50, surface=paved, lanes=2?
If I knew the road I would surely do it. For the _point_ you linked to, it seems correct (the maxspeed at least for one direction), but I still would have to guess, that this maxspeed is valid for the other direction as well (probably yes, but you cannot be sure) and that it is valid for the whole road. Don't know if it is a residential street either (could be unclassified or tertiary). Of course you don't know for other restrictions (e.g. weight, but also access=destination, ...). You can be quite sure for the information you provided above, but still you don't know if some important information (like access=destination) that you surely would insert if you had visited the place, is missing. This discussion is simply about the quality level: are you satisfied with probable information derived from an aerial photo depicting the situation some years ago, or do you want to insert only information you verified on the ground and you can guarantee for? cheers, Martin _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
