[Tagging] highway=unclassified

2011-07-27 Thread M∡rtin Koppenhoefer
I wonder if this definition which was formerly part of the description for highway=unclassified is still valid: Unclassified roads typically form the lowest form of the interconnecting grid network. It was removed here (Tidying up the struck bits):

Re: [Tagging] highway=unclassified

2011-07-27 Thread Simone Saviolo
2011/7/27 M∡rtin Koppenhoefer dieterdre...@gmail.com I wonder if this definition which was formerly part of the description for highway=unclassified is still valid: Unclassified roads typically form the lowest form of the interconnecting grid network. It was removed here (Tidying up the

Re: [Tagging] highway=unclassified

2011-07-27 Thread M∡rtin Koppenhoefer
2011/7/27 Simone Saviolo simone.savi...@gmail.com: IMHO, it's a sentence that is both unclear and wrong. Interconnecting grid network has no significance: if it wasn't interconnecting it wouldn't be a network, and a grid network is just a specific case of a network but the unclassified applies

Re: [Tagging] highway=unclassified

2011-07-27 Thread Simone Saviolo
2011/7/27 M∡rtin Koppenhoefer dieterdre...@gmail.com 2011/7/27 Simone Saviolo simone.savi...@gmail.com: IMHO, it's a sentence that is both unclear and wrong. Interconnecting grid network has no significance: if it wasn't interconnecting it wouldn't be a network, and a grid network is

Re: [Tagging] highway=unclassified

2011-07-27 Thread Richard Mann
When I had a go at re-writing it, I tried to give some clarity on the boundaries with adjacent values (residential, tertiary, track) - without being too country-specific. I'm not sure that the deleted sentence is particularly helpful, so I'd leave it out on the keep-it-simple principle.

Re: [Tagging] highway=unclassified

2011-07-27 Thread M∡rtin Koppenhoefer
2011/7/27 Simone Saviolo simone.savi...@gmail.com: 2011/7/27 M∡rtin Koppenhoefer dieterdre...@gmail.com Maybe I'm being picky. What I mean is: we have a worldwide graph of roads, or a network if we want to call it that. A grid network, to me, sounds like an orthogonal grid, like the one you'd

Re: [Tagging] highway=unclassified

2011-07-27 Thread M∡rtin Koppenhoefer
2011/7/27 Richard Mann richard.mann.westoxf...@gmail.com: When I had a go at re-writing it, I tried to give some clarity on the boundaries with adjacent values (residential, tertiary, track) - Yes, but on the other hand deleting the cited part changed the definition and made it more difficult

Re: [Tagging] highway=unclassified

2011-07-27 Thread Richard Mann
The problem is that it ain't that simple. Quite a lot of unclassifieds don't go anywhere much, and aren't really part of the connected network. An unclassified isn't necessarily higher in the hierarchy than a residential. On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 10:51 PM, M∡rtin Koppenhoefer

Re: [Tagging] highway=unclassified

2011-07-27 Thread Simone Saviolo
2011/7/27 M∡rtin Koppenhoefer dieterdre...@gmail.com 2011/7/27 Simone Saviolo simone.savi...@gmail.com: Of course, the roads are interconnecting, otherwise it wouldn't be a network. I thought this was a common term in English, but as I am not a native speaker I might be wrong Neither