Tag:highway=residential
 highway = residential
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Road in a residential area 
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The highway=residential tag is used on roads that provide access to, or within, residential areas. While these roads typically allow through traffic, they are not normally used as through routes. Most traffic on a residential road will be for the access to, or from, residential properties. Roads carrying primarily through traffic, or non-residential traffic, should be tagged with a different highway tag (e.g. unclassified, tertiary) as appropriate (see highways). Roads to individual dwellings would normally be tagged as highway=service (and likely service=driveway).
For tagging in towns and cities, it can be useful to consider the following:
- residential – street or road generally used for local traffic within the settlement. Primarily used for access to residential properties but may include access to some non-residential properties (e.g. a corner shop or convenience store). Likely to have lower speed limits or traffic calming measures in place.
- unclassified – roads with the lowest priority in the interconnecting road network. Use when the traffic is not just for residential access, even if residential properties may also be accessed by this road.
- tertiary – usage is dependent upon local mapping conventions, but is often used on a linking or connecting road with low to moderate traffic. May still be in a residential area, and may have residential properties abutting it, but will normally connect up multiple residential roads, local centers of activity, or other suburbs.
See also:
- highway=living_street – a street where pedestrians have priority over cars, children can play on the street, maximum speed is low.
- highway=service – a service road for access to a building, service station, beach, campsite, industrial estate, business park, etc.
How to map
Draw a way and add the highway=residential.
Tags to use in combination
- name=* – Street name
- old_name=* – Former street name
- oneway=yes – One-way street
- postal_code=* – Postal code
- maxspeed=* – Maximum speed
- surface=* – Road surface
- smoothness=* – The condition of the road surface
- lane_markings=* – If there are visible lane markings
- lanes=* – Number of lanes
- width=* – Road width
- sidewalk=* – Sidewalk
- cycleway=* – Bicycle path
- lit=yes – Illuminated
- parking:left=* + parking:right=* or parking:both=*
- access=* – Rules of use, e.g. residents free
- abutters=* – Type of settlement, e.g. commercial area
- name:etymology:wikidata=* – Wikidata object for the name
- tunnel=building_passage – House passage
- bridge=* – Bridge
- winter_service=* – Winter maintenance
United States – TIGER data import
- Further information: TIGER fixup#Wrong highway classifications
The large scale TIGER data input of United States street data overused this tag. A significant proportion of these roads could be tagged as highway=unclassified or highway=tertiary under the guideline mentioned above.
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