On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 5:30 PM, Charlotte Wolter <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello folks, > > I've been cleaning up the Tiger-based sections of the map for Santa > Monica, California. > In the downtown area, about 40 square blocks, the streets are busy > and not residential. But they also are not through ways, providing > transportation between areas. They were marked "residential," but that's > clearly not accurate at this time. I had changed the tags to "tertiary," > because they are two-way and have white dashed lines and, sometimes, four > lanes. They are often jammed with traffic. After reading the wiki, I was > wondering if this where we use "unclassified"? > Apologies if this is an old question and thanks in advance for our > help. > > Best, > > Charlotte
Personally, I've always considered "unclassified" an exclusively rural kind of road. In built-up environments, its counterpart is "residential" regardless of actual landuse. Actually, its closer counterpart would be "tertiary" if you're talking about most of the roads that were there before it became developed, and the new streets would be "residential". Other people have expressed different viewpoints in this thread, however, and I'm not going to claim that I'm right and they are wrong. I might even consider using "unclassified" in urban areas myself, for non-residential through roads that aren't important enough to be "tertiary". After all, the idea of "unclassified" being exclusively rural always kind of bugged me. I can't remember exactly where I picked that up, but it must have been one of the many conflicting pages regarding use of different values for the highway tag. -- David "Smith" a.k.a. Vid the Kid a.k.a. Bír'd'in Does this font make me look fat? _______________________________________________ newbies mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/newbies
