On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 2:34 PM, Steve Bennett <[email protected]> wrote: > > highway=unclassified is a truly awful tag. I believe it made sense in the > UK, where that's an actual category of road, but it's very hard to apply > here, and it's really not clear what the difference between unclassified, > residential, and service is. I see people using unclassified for roads > within business parks, factories, airports etc but I don't think it's right.
My 2 cents: anything that is less important than tertiary is: 1) if it is a named/public road: * residential if lined primarily with people's homes and used primarily by people accessing those homes * unclassified otherwise 2) service otherwise (unnamed or restricted access) When I say "named/public" I mean it has a normal street sign and is accessible to the general public. I'm not suggesting this is a nice tagging scheme, but it's what I use, and at least it isn't "very hard to apply" here, IMHO. _______________________________________________ Talk-au mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au
