On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 10:16 PM, M∡rtin Koppenhoefer <[email protected]> wrote: > +1, and you can't see restrictions, surface quality and material, > oneways, etc. on them. That's why there is highway=road. You should > avoid to tag highway=specific-highway-class if you don't know the > location from being on the ground. > > Please tag roads derived from aerial imagery as > > highway=road
I'm sorry, but no. This is not common practice, nor is it desirable. Could we please not give advice which only reflects personal preferences? Fwiw, highway=road is for when you know *nothing* about a road. Can you tell me, hand on heart, that you would not tag this road: http://www.nearmap.com/?ll=-38.107325,145.15275&z=20&t=k&nmd=20101020 as highway=residential, maxspeed=50, surface=paved, lanes=2? Steve _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
