2009/9/16 Valent Turkovic <valent.turko...@gmail.com>:
> On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 3:34 PM, Nick Whitelegg
> <nick.whitel...@solent.ac.uk> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> My understanding is that rural roads ("country lanes" as they are called
>> in the UK) should be highway=unclassified. However if there is a small
>> housing estate or residential road in a village, it should be
>> highway=residential.
>>
>> Cue long debate on this ;-)
>
> This is now how wiki says it should be mapped, why is that?!?
> If you check: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tagging_samples/out_of_town
>
> There is a clear definition on what unclassified is, and that are only
> really "unimportant" roads, so to say.
>
>My understanding was that Unclassified roads went somewhere and did not have a road number but were not up to Tertiary Standard (What ever that means) where as Residential Streets did not go anywhere and only had houses on them. bit like a living_street but where cars have priority really. Peter. _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
