Hi, John Smith wrote: > I'm proposing not to replace highway=unclassified but to clarify it's > meaning to be one thing, that is it has higher volumes of traffic > than residential, but not enough to be considered tertiary.
This is not how it is generally used over here (Germany) where the majority of people use unclassified for a road roughly equal to residential but without people living there. Mind you, only recently someone has suggested on talk-de to do the same as you say, namely define unclassified as something "bigger than residential but smaller than tertiary". > I'm also proposing to introduce a new highway classification for > non-urban* areas. That is highway=rural would be for roads generally > lesser than residential, generally unsealed but some of them are > sealed and they generally only have a single lane depending how > zealous the grader driver was feeling. I would not hesitate to use highway=residential or highway=unclassified for these (or even tertiary and up if they are important to traffic). In fact, nobody says that a secondary road must be sealed! You can always add a surface tag to describe details. Bye Frederik _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
