Robin Paulson wrote: > i'm not too keen on using highway=unclassified as it's generally seen > as more important to most mappers, and it's almost always for a public > road
I think that is the key here. The illogical use of 'unclassified' in the UK is what causes the problem. So 'service' was added as a designation for a small road that would probably be 'unclassified' in the rest of the world. We then add 'public' or 'private' relating to ACCESS, and I see little point adding yet another main 'designation' such as 'drive' unless there is a real difference in how these types of road need rendering. wiki is running incredibly slow at the moment, so I can't check some of the other fine detail, micro-mapping of private property such as drives, parking areas and property within an individuals boundaries should be 'ring-fenced' with tagging that allows this low level detail to be excluded as required? 4 minutes to get http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Highway page ... I'm almost tempted to suggest highway=private rather than highway=service, access=private, service=driveway. So I can see the reasoning behind tidying up some of this micro-mapping detail ... The 'service' attributes seem to contradict the actual definition of highway=service above And when did highway=services get added SURELY that is amenity=services ? If I am looking amenities I would NEVER look in the highway list! ( And a final grump - PLEASE can the ENGLISH page be actually written in ENGLISH with a link from the county entry to the relevant country page for a local translation. Take 'India' or 'Korea' as an example of how it should be done so that those of us who are linguistically challenged can at least understand the comparison. Although I WOULD like to see the title in the language of the country since that makes perfect sense? ) -- Lester Caine - G8HFL ----------------------------- Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/lsces/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ Model Engineers Digital Workshop - http://medw.co.uk// Firebird - http://www.firebirdsql.org/index.php _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
