On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 5:16 AM, André Riedel <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, 23 Aug 2010, Nathan Edgars II wrote: >> Making the former secondary would seemingly overload the map with >> secondaries. But as it is, there are two distinct classes of road >> marked as tertiary, and it's not always clear which connect between >> neighborhoods and which serve as main roads inside neighborhoods. >> Bumping the latter down to residential would also lose information: >> these are more than your typical residential street, and are intended >> to collect and distribute neighborhood traffic. >> >> Does anyone have any suggestions other than starting the long process >> to make a new "collector" classification for the latter? Am I using >> too few primaries and secondaries? > > In Germany we use highway=unclassified as minor connection (below > tertiary) between two towns and also for the main road in or to a > neighborhood.
highway=unclassified in my experience is essentially highway=residential outside a residential area. _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
