On 5/7/18 10:35 AM, Rory McCann wrote: > On 06/05/18 09:41, 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%3Dunclassified >> was correct. > > Yes it is! AFAIR the "highway=unclassified" comes from British usage, > where "unclassified" was a road classification. Yes it sound silly. I > think the refs in the UK aren't signposted, but roads with the > unclassified classification (!) have "U" refs (e.g. "U123", instead of > "A123" etc). by convention if a ref is unposted, many folks use unsigned_ref instead of ref for example, pretty much all the rural paved roads in North Carolina have state assigned refs, but the ordinary town roads are unposted.
i can imagine a jurisdiction which uses signed refs on generic "unclassified" roads, but i've never seen one. i would be reluctant to explicitly rule out the possibility. richard -- [email protected] Averill Park Networking - GIS & IT Consulting OpenStreetMap - PostgreSQL - Linux Java - Web Applications - Search _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
