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 struck bits)": > > http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/w/index.php?title=Tag:highway%3Dunclassified&oldid=316530
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 to any kind of network. Also, highway=unclassified is not the lowest degree: there's highway=residential in any kind of urban centre, and highway=track in the country. The sentence may be good if that "interconnecting grid network" was clarified. For example, one could consider the highway=unclassified ways to be the lowest degree for roads that are not used (almost) exclusively by the locals. In that sense, it would be a sort of "lesser tertiary" when defining the structure of the road graph in a urban area. My two cents. > cheers, > Martin Regards, Simone
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