--- On Wed, 5/8/09, Richard Mann <[email protected]> wrote:
> The tagger just needs to be able to describe what is > there simply and clearly. A new tag for rural > "unclassifieds" would clarify matters, and > highway=rural is as good a suggestion as any. It would be > better for us to have something we can agree on, rather than > having some people use "unclassified", some people > seeking to redefine unclassified, and others using > highway=track+tracktype=grade1. Well as I posted earlier, to me there is a clear distinction from track and rural road. > I'd define a "rural" as a road which is > (usually) maintained by a public body, and open to public > access, but where only partial provision is made for > vehicles travelling in opposite directions to pass (be that > lower-grade shoulders, Australian-style or occasional > formal or informal widenings, UK-style). The width of rural roads varies depending on the type of traffic using it, like 5 trailer road trains to lesser roads. http://outbacktowing.tripod.com/sitebuildercontent/sitebuilderpictures/tanker2.jpg Try and get one of those things down a dirt track :) _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
