2011/7/28 Simone Saviolo <simone.savi...@gmail.com>: > 2011/7/27 M∡rtin Koppenhoefer <dieterdre...@gmail.com>
> Then I can't honestly grasp what this "interconnecting" network is. > Or rather, I think I understand what you mean, but you're not defining it - > you're describing it with a vague term. to make this clear: the term we are discussing about is not from me, and as I wrote before: if we can find a better term I would be glad to use that instead. > connected. You are saying, basically, if I get it right, that an > unclassified is a way that is connected to (and connects) streets of a > certain importance +1 - and I agree to that - while, e.g., a residential is > only connected to other residentials and/or to the occasional bigger way. a residential road might also be connected on both ends to bigger ways but still itself not be suitable to serve as a general connection. > But, of course, this isn't a definition. How important should the connected > streets be? How important should the street itself be? that's relative to the surroundings and will not be easily coverable by a general definition - I would omit that part. > In a grid-like city, > there will be a bunch of parallel streets connecting Large Avenue A to Great > Street B; why would a few of those be unclassified's and other > residential's? maybe they would all be unclassifieds? Or maybe the turning restrictions and traffic calming and oneway situation would make some of them going through and others effectively not? > I would just describe it as a street that, in a urban environment, is used > by people to go from a neighbourhood to another neighbourhood. A residential > is used mainly by local inhabitants to reach a specific address; an > unclassified is a, what's the term?, a passing road? I'm not a native > English speaker either, so here some help with the words would be > appreciated :-) "connecting road" ? > In the country, it's not the main road you would use to go from town A to > town B (that one would be a tertiary), nor it's supposed to be used only by > agricultural vehicles (that one would be a track). I don't know if we have to include "countryside" and "urban environment" in the definition. (IMHO for a general definition this doesn't matter). I'd say: "It is the lowest form of a connection road. Below tertiary roads." All the rest of the wiki page (explanations that unclassified is a classification, examples, ...) could go to the following paragraphs. cheers, Martin _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
