Martin Koppenhoefer wrote: >> The argument about 'is way x better than way y' >> where one is residential and one is unclassified is the mistake being made, >> and I would still like some one the provide a situation where unclassified >> would be used in an urban area which is by default 'residential/industrial' ? > > yes, I agree that there is no consensus about the distinction of > importance between unclassified and residential, and maybe not even > has to be. But this is the first time I learn that there is also doubt > about the distinction of tertiary from residential and unclassified. > The latter 2 IMHO are clearly less important than tertiary.
The distinction between tertiary and unclassified in the UK is rather blured now. Any road that does not have a classification is 'unclassified' but there ARE no 'C' roads, so by extension there are no tertiary roads in the UK. However many roads in rural areas ( and I live in the Cotswolds ) are probably tertiary or track rather than unclassified. Private roads ( such as provided across private estates ) may well be built to a high standard and have a right of way over, that is they ARE more important than tertiary roads in the road system, yet they are legally unclassified. It's for that reason I think trying to apply 'levels of importance' to the lowest highway tier IS the problem? If there are countries where the road classification system identifies tertiary roads distinctly then fair enough, but most of the residential and service roads in the UK are probably tertiary rather than unclassified, which puts them above unclassified. However there is still nothing really distinct between these two levels? Of cause 'unadopted' is the actual legal status of roads that are not maintained by the state in some way, and these can be urban or rural :) -- Lester Caine - G8HFL ----------------------------- Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ Model Engineers Digital Workshop - http://medw.co.uk// Firebird - http://www.firebirdsql.org/index.php _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
