At the moment, 'unclassified' has so many different opinions that it means nothing at all. Could we at least agree on the basics:
A. "unclassified" means you don't know the class; or B. "unclassified" is a class in itself. If A the UK needs an alternative for roads officially classified as 'unclassified'. I would go with 'quaternary' because it can be applied anywhere. If B a better differentiation is needed. I think defining it as "same as <other class>" is not helpful. Current OSM-usage is not helpful, because it just reflects the indecision and confusion. Maybe it's best to define "unclassified" as UK-only, and add quaternary for the missing step between tertiary and residential. Why missing link? I don't know the whole world, but all european countries I know have some sort of official classification of three levels to move around the country, and a lot of other public roads, brushed together as a rest category of "other roads". If we classify in the database, that's 'unclassified' or quaternary for me. Then residential roads/areas are mostly entered through those. As it stands, routing/navigating is not that bad, probably because I use OSM mainly for cycling/walking. Vr gr Peter Elderson Op ma 5 aug. 2019 om 07:11 schreef Florian Lohoff <[email protected]>: > On Sun, Aug 04, 2019 at 07:55:16PM +0100, ael wrote: > > On Sun, Aug 04, 2019 at 04:23:03PM +0200, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote: > > > sent from a phone > > > > On 4. Aug 2019, at 15:37, Florian Lohoff <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > A residential is also an unclassified road. > > > > > > IMHO it is not, as an unclassified road is part of the interconnection > grid, while a residential road is not > > > > My reply was going to be much the same. Unclassified roads are generally > > for "through traffic". Residential raods are primarily for access to > > those buildings, and would not (normally) be used for travel to other > > destinations. > > No statement in the Wiki backs up this claim. This is what i say. > > No statement about through traffic. Residentials are for through > traffic aswell although their primary purpose may be access to the > residential area. > > This is what our algorithmic brothers in routing/navigation do. Treating > unclassified and residential the same. > > And we cant distinguish these 2 by hard facts. Its more or less "felt > traffic pattern" or "believe" or "experience" how you tag. > > Flo > -- > Florian Lohoff [email protected] > UTF-8 Test: The ๐ ran after a ๐, but the ๐ ran away > _______________________________________________ > Tagging mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging >
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