Andy Allan wrote: > On Fri, Nov 7, 2008 at 11:00 PM, Lester Caine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> The purpose of the service road is to service an industrial area - therefore >> it is not simply unclassified. Unclassified is only appropriate - in my >> opinion - when the road has no identified other use. Why bother with >> residential or service if they are all going to be called unclassified? > > highway=unclassified is a specific classification, just one with a > confusing name. It has special meaning in some countries, including > the UK. > > See http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Tag:highway%3Dunclassified > for more details.
This still does not 'answer the question'. Which selection should take priority - tag all roads of this type 'unclassified' or tag some bits 'unclassified' outside private property and some 'service' for those inside private property? I understand the definition of 'unclassified', and many of the 'residential' and 'service' roads currently tagged as such ARE 'unclassified'. I would expect both 'residential' and 'service' roads to have a default status of unclassified, otherwise they would be tagged 'primary' or 'secondary' since THAT takes priority over 'residential' and 'service'? It's a matter of creating some consistency in tagging. -- 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
