Tag:highway=residential

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+/- highway=residential Description Road in a residential area Used on these elements Useful combination name oneway Status Approved Tools for this tag Combinations worldwide in Australia/Oceania in Europe (list) in Asia (list) in Central America (list) in South America (list) in Africa (list)  (via overpass turbo - help)

This tag is used for roads accessing or around residential areas but which are not a classified or unclassified highway.

This is a useful guideline if you are not sure whether to use "residential" or "unclassified" for streets in towns:

• residential - street or road generally used only by people that live on that road or roads that branch off it.
• unclassified - a road that has no administrative classification ref=*. Unclassified roads typically form the lowest form of the interconnecting grid network. (See also highway=unclassified.)

See also:

• highway=living_street - a street where pedestrians have priority over cars, children can play on the street, maximum speed is low.

How to map

To map a residential way nothing else than a simple way is required. Add the highway=residential tag to it and a name=* if appropriate.

Examples

Picture/Description	Tags	Mapnik
a simple residential way.	a way with highway=residential name=Humboldtstraße

United States - TIGER data import

The large scale TIGER data input of United States street data appears to have overused the highway=residential tag. A significant proportion of these roads could be tagged as unclassified under the guideline mentioned above.

Related terms: <residential area>