On Thu, 12 Nov 2015 08:44:59 -0600 Paul Johnson <ba...@ursamundi.org> wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 11, 2015 at 3:41 PM, Mateusz Konieczny > <matkoni...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > On Wed, 11 Nov 2015 04:33:57 -0600 > > Paul Johnson <ba...@ursamundi.org> wrote: > > > > > On Tue, Nov 10, 2015 at 2:36 AM, Mateusz Konieczny > > > <matkoni...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > > > On Mon, 9 Nov 2015 22:36:28 -0500 > > > > Andrew Guertin <andrew.guer...@uvm.edu> wrote: > > > > > > > > > So the question is, should uses of highway=residential_link be > > > > > edited away, should they be left as-is (unless a different > > > > > highway type is clearly better), or should the tag be approved > > > > > and documented? > > > > > > > > Can somebody give examples of locations where residential_link > > > > makes sense? > > > > > > > > > http://www.openstreetmap.org/way/262287021 > > > > > > No frontage, only exists to tie four ways together around a tree > > > in a non-roundabout fashion. Only the highway=residential ways > > > are signed on the ground. > > > > I am on a different continent, so I may only StreetView - but I > > would tag something like that as highway=residential and I see no > > gain whatsoever from using residential_link. > > > > > > https://www.google.pl/maps/@36.1243396,-95.9812983,3a,75y,163.91h,76.29t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1shsZ4_4xjBRqp_xFsxqtTwg!2e0!7i13312!8i6656?hl=en > > > > The loop behind the tree has no frontage or name and only serves as > part of the intersection between 27th Place, 28th Street and > Cincinatti Avenue. Lack of name is completely irrelevant. Also, just because there are no houses on really short segment of road does no mean that highway=residential may not be used. _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
