Hello everyone, Time and again I get myself thinking why is that we use a single classification system for rural and urban ways. To me, an urban tertiary is usually very different from a rural tertiary, both physically and functionally.
For several applications, such as navigation software, a distinction would be very interesting, allowing the display of rural primaries and secondaries when zooming out, a more accurate speed guess when the maxspeed tag is missing (based on these tables, which seem to assume that the urban/rural boundary is mapped using a place=* tag, perhaps an old idea: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/OSM_tags_for_routing/Maxspeed). The only benefit I can see of mixing the two classification systems into a single system is not being required to duplicate a rendering rule. -- Fernando Trebien +55 (51) 9962-5409 "Nullius in verba." _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
