There are some roads in Sheffield tagged as highway=living_street that are not designated “home zones”, however they fit with the general feel of a living street, which is limited on-street parking, no pavements and traffic calming. My feeling is that they should be tagged as highway=residential and those features (no pavement, traffic calming, no on-street parking) should be tagged on the road, and only designated home zones should be tagged as living streets.
I definitely don’t think quiet lanes should be tagged as living streets, but the wiki seems to imply they should be? It would be good to get clarity on both these things.
I’d agree it doesn’t make sense for “quiet lanes” to be tagged as highway=living_street in OSM (I’ve always just used designation=quiet_lane). I’d suggest just updating the wiki there.
My recollection is that that was the general consensus the last time that this was discussed too (probably on a mailing list).
Almost all of the highway=living_street instances I’ve seen are highly dubious.
Not only is there no Home Zone sign, but a short unadopted residential cul-de-sac doesn’t become a living street just because the developer changed to “prettier” block paving. The lack of pavements and a reduced speed limit isn’t so much a living street as a “ you for not driving street”.
[EDIT: perhaps we should use designation=home_zone in addition to highway=living_street for the ones which are actually signed?]
I’d agree it doesn’t make sense for “quiet lanes” to be tagged as highway=living_street in OSM (I’ve always just used designation=quiet_lane). I’d suggest just updating the wiki there.
I was going to suggest this, but I’d suggest the tag is designation=GB:home_zone for clarity. Might need to be more specific than GB if use is different in component parts of UK.
It might be nice if it was, but it isn’t currently (search that for GB:home_zone or home_zone). There are no data consumers listed for that explicit value.
