2009/7/31 John Smith <[email protected]>: > --- On Fri, 31/7/09, Martin Koppenhoefer <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Well, I just see it as a hierarchical line: >> residential >> unclassified >> tert >> sec >> prim >> trunk >> motorway >> >> it's simple as that, and I don't see any problem. > > Maybe to you, but I don't see it that way based on reading the english > language wiki page and mapping out rural roads lesser than residential as > unclassified.
I don't know where you are mapping and which streets you are mapping as residential. Maybe you could post an example so I can try to understand you better. The English page for residential states: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Residential "This tag is used for roads accessing or around residential areas but which are not a classified or unclassified highway. This is a useful guideline if you are not sure whether to use "residential" or "unclassified" for streets in towns: * unclassified - a wider road used by through traffic * residential - a narrower road generally used only by people that live on that road or roads that branch off it. " so maybe you should think about your tagging habits. > Neither does the JOSM author(s) for that matter as they didn't treat unnamed > unclassified roads as a warning/error until I submitted a patch for it and > he/they are in Germany. Well, I'm in Italy but occasionally also mapping in Germany. No road at all (maybe residential) does have to have a name. There are warnings in cases they are not valid and there are cases where no warnings are displayed. Those warnings are hints, and it is a question of personal preferences which warnings should be displayed. I don't see your point in this regard. cheers, Martin _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
