Charlotte Wolter wrote: > I've been cleaning up the Tiger-based sections of the map for > Santa Monica, California. In the downtown area, about 40 square > blocks, the streets are busy and not residential. But they also are > not through ways, providing transportation between areas. They were > marked "residential," but that's clearly not accurate at this time. I > had changed the tags to "tertiary," because they are two-way and have > white dashed lines and, sometimes, four lanes. They are often jammed > with traffic. After reading the wiki, I was wondering if this where > we use "unclassified"? Apologies if this is an old question > and thanks in advance for our help. > > Best, > > Charlotte
Charlotte, I ran into the same problem, and asked basically the same question. I never did get a satisfactory answer. One response doubted my situation actually existed! From all the reading of the wiki and talk lists that I have done, it seems that function overrides physical characteristics when classifying highways. So, I decided that if it was a street that doesn't go anywhere except through a commercial area for several blocks, the best thing to do was to use highway=unclassified, and to add a lanes=n qualifier if it has more than two lanes. Of course, others may disagree. -- Randy _______________________________________________ newbies mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/newbies
