Dave Swarthout <[email protected]> writes: > 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
You would think. But no. In the UK, there is a notion of A/B/C roads, and then unclassified. I gather this means they are part of the network but not declared one of A/B/C. I was in Scotland (in the highlands just off Skye) in 2016, and saw a road that was U, and signed as UXXXX (a real number, but I don't remember it). It was even more minor than the nearby C road. > seem to me that any road so ranked by the authorities should not be tagged > as unclassified. If you think of it as A/B/C/D where A is the most important (non-Interstate) roads and D the least, where D roads are just barely worthy of being numbered, but that we call D as U instead because that's what they do in the UK, I think you are not that far off. Around me, unclassified is typically used for roads that are somewhat more important than others, but not to the level of being numbered. _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
