On 6/15/2016 3:22 AM, Michael wrote:
Hi,
Here the word 'unclassified' is pretty misleading as well. For some
reason 'highway=unclassified' does not mean that the road is not
classified at all but does not have any special classification. In
other words it is something like "other road" or any road that is not
tertiary or above.
The best translation into en_US for highway=unclassified is "minor
road", "other road" is also reasonable.
'highway=track' is mainly about what the road is mainly used for, less
what vehicle can be used on it. In Germany there is such a thing as
'highway=track, surface=paved' - but other than 'highway=unclassified'
those tracks usually have sign limiting their use to agricultural use
only. This is not really intuitive but that's just the way things
evolved in OSM.
Yes. a highway=track can be better paved and better maintained than a
highway=unclassified.
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