2009/8/7 Roy Wallace <[email protected]>: > 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
> 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. I completely agree with Roy. Be it for the mess created as for the summary of current use. Let's use this. cheers, Martin _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
