On Fri, Aug 7, 2009 at 1:37 AM, Richard Mann<[email protected]> wrote: > As indicated, I've had a go at a rewrite of the unclassified page: > > http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:highway%3Dunclassified > > Comments in the usual place (or have your own go at hacking it)
I've added my thoughts to the discussion page. Replicated below: Presently IMHO it's an absolute mess. Try reading the whole page through once, then see if you can explain to someone what it means. Or better yet, get a non-OSM'er to read it and see if they understand. Here's another idea: there appears to be several distinct definitions of the tag in current use, according to talk and talk-au mailing list discussion e.g. 1. urban roads in industrial areas less important than highway=tertiary 2. "something bigger than highway=residential but smaller than highway=tertiary" 3. rural roads less important than highway=tertiary 4. "a road equal to a residential road, but outside residential areas"; "a road roughly equal to residential but without people living there" 5. "the lowest street/road in the interconnecting grid, be it in urban or rural areas" Rather than trying to unify the different usages into one big confusing mess, maybe it would be better to separately explain each current usage? i.e. "This tag is used if the road is A or B or C or D or E". This more closely reflects reality and IMHO will not be any harder to read than the current mess. This could also lead the way to *eventually* replace each different usage with a tag of its own. _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
