But when a highway has an officially assigned ref doesn't that define it as "classified"? I don't have a large stake in this discussion but it would seem to me that any road so ranked by the authorities should not be tagged as unclassified.
My 2 cents Dave On Sun, May 6, 2018 at 12:19 PM, Andrew Hain <[email protected]> wrote: > The use of the ref tag for highway authority road numbers is controversial > in the UK (no road with a signed number would be as low as > highway=unclassified). There may be better examples in other countries. > > > -- > > Andrew > > > ------------------------------ > *From:* Philip Barnes <[email protected]> > *Sent:* 06 May 2018 13:28 > *To:* [email protected] > *Subject:* Re: [Tagging] Is it possible to have highway=unclassified with > ref tag? > > On Sun, 2018-05-06 at 09:41 +0200, Mateusz Konieczny wrote: > > I am pretty sure that it is entirely possible to have > > highway=unclassified > > with officially assigned and posted ref number, but I wanted to check > > whatever my edit on https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:highway%3 > > Dunclassified > > was correct. > > It is certainly possible, in the UK all public highways have a > reference number. For lower classifications these references are used > internally by Local Authorities and the references do not appear on > signs. The consensus is that only references that a visible should use > the ref tag in OSM. > > For unsigned references we use official_ref and prow_ref which will not > appear on the standard map but can be rendered on more specialised > maps. > > Phil (trigpoint) > > > > _______________________________________________ > Tagging mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging > > _______________________________________________ > Tagging mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging > > -- Dave Swarthout Homer, Alaska Chiang Mai, Thailand Travel Blog at http://dswarthout.blogspot.com
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