Martin Koppenhoefer <[email protected]> writes: > 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.
Sorry - I had missed that in all the discussion about unclassified. In that case I think unclassified meets what I was talking about for quarternary ( below tertiary, above residential). So probably the renderers need a way to show unclassified as less important than tertiary. And perhaps 'residential' should be redefined as "only used by people who are traveling to a location on that road or a less important road that branches off it", removing the 'residential' notion.
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