On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 11:26 AM, Alex Mauer <[email protected]> wrote: > On 11/21/2009 12:11 AM, James Ewen wrote: >> I guess you missed the rest of my post where I described these >> roads. [ ... ]
> Is there something wrong with using highway=unclassified for these? For the purposes of the newbies list, it is worth mentioning that highway classifications are a match for legal highway classification in England. Elsewhere, the 'right' classification will be a best-fit to the standard tags based on local conditions and traditions. While it may be true that "you can tag anything in any way that you please" it is expected by the rest of the community that you will tag highways (and everything else) in a way that is acceptable to the rest of the community. New mappers should consider and emulate the practices adopted by other local mappers. Charlotte's original question about marking western, major, unpaved roads as tertiary seems reasonable given that description. With a planet as diverse and project as large as ours, it would be madness to expect precisely uniform tagging from place to place. We'll have to rely on our experienced local experts to do the right thing. _______________________________________________ newbies mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/newbies
