On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 5:18 AM, John Smith<[email protected]> wrote:
> Change highway=unclassified definition to be more explicit, for example:

Are you just speaking about Australia wiki pages or in general ?

> "No administrative classification. Unclassified roads typically form the 
> interconnecting grid network of residential and other Urban road ways."

Here in France, we reuse the highway=tertiary for such things since
tertiary doesn't really exists as administrative level.

> And a new highway classification highway=rural which would be:
> "No administrative classification. Rural roads typically form the lowest form 
> of the non-Urban interconnecting grid network. Rural roads also connect more 
> than one farm to urban areas even if they are no through roads."
> Hopefully the refinement of unclassified and the addition of a new highway 
> type seen mostly in rural areas of Australia and I'm guessing other countries 
> with large areas of sparsely populated areas.

We also have some sparsely populated areas and we were able the handle
them with the existing classification
tertiary/unclassified/residential/track. Didn't had to create another
one which would just add confusion.

Pieren

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