That's basically the highway=unclassified tag. On Mon, May 7, 2018, 12:07 Vao Matua <vaoma...@gmail.com> wrote:
> There are many places where people live in Africa that could be tagged as > Rural_Residential if that tag existed. > > On Mon, May 7, 2018 at 9:57 AM, Dave Swarthout <daveswarth...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> yopaseopor wrote: I suggest to reclassify the other roads in their >> grades to make unclassified roads unclassified as the name says it. >> >> +1 >> >> I agree with your view but this topic is full of issues. In Thailand, for >> example, we use "unclassified" for any highway that a) has no ref, and b), >> is neither a service road, track, or residential way. It is essentially a >> catchall for roads that do not fall into any other category. Again, using >> Thailand as an example, there are many small, paved roads that have few or >> no homes on them, sort of like a service road. I think some new category >> might be warranted. However, proposing such a change and then obtaining >> consensus is bound to be a difficult process. >> >> On Mon, May 7, 2018 at 12:47 PM, yo paseopor <yopaseo...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> >>> The topic is the classification of OSM is not the same as countries >>> have, and this make troubles. An UNCLASSIFIED road as its name says it is >>> unclassified...but when you need some road classification with a step more >>> than tertiary then you use unclassified, and if the road has ref...you put >>> in then. Why don't you reorder the tertiary roads? They also catch your >>> less thant tertiary roads in your country. Also it is the same problem with >>> trunk or primary: whatis the difference between trunk of one lane per >>> direction and a primary road? Also you have the issue if you consider the >>> administrative classification as we do some countries: a trunk may be a >>> trunk because being managed by one specific administration? WTF? Is it good >>> for the map? All the roads by a local administration should be >>> unclassified? It is a complicated problem. I suggest to reclassify the >>> other roads in their grades to make unclassified roads unclassified as the >>> name says it. >>> >>> Salut i carreteres sense classificar (Health and unclassified roads) >>> yopaseopor >>> >>> On Mon, May 7, 2018 at 5:11 PM, Richard Welty <rwe...@averillpark.net> >>> wrote: >>> >>>> On 5/7/18 10:35 AM, Rory McCann wrote: >>>> > On 06/05/18 09:41, Mateusz Konieczny wrote: >>>> >> I am pretty sure that it is entirely possible to have >>>> >> highway=unclassified >>>> >> with officially assigned and posted ref number, but I wanted to check >>>> >> whatever my edit on >>>> >> https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:highway%3Dunclassified >>>> >> was correct. >>>> > >>>> > Yes it is! AFAIR the "highway=unclassified" comes from British usage, >>>> > where "unclassified" was a road classification. Yes it sound silly. I >>>> > think the refs in the UK aren't signposted, but roads with the >>>> > unclassified classification (!) have "U" refs (e.g. "U123", instead of >>>> > "A123" etc). >>>> by convention if a ref is unposted, many folks use unsigned_ref instead >>>> of ref >>>> for example, pretty much all the rural paved roads in North Carolina >>>> have state >>>> assigned refs, but the ordinary town roads are unposted. >>>> >>>> i can imagine a jurisdiction which uses signed refs on generic >>>> "unclassified" roads, >>>> but i've never seen one. i would be reluctant to explicitly rule out the >>>> possibility. >>>> >>>> richard >>>> >>>> -- >>>> rwe...@averillpark.net >>>> Averill Park Networking - GIS & IT Consulting >>>> OpenStreetMap - PostgreSQL - Linux >>>> Java - Web Applications - Search >>>> >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> Tagging mailing list >>>> Tagging@openstreetmap.org >>>> https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging >>>> >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Tagging mailing list >>> Tagging@openstreetmap.org >>> https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging >>> >>> >> >> >> -- >> Dave Swarthout >> Homer, Alaska >> Chiang Mai, Thailand >> Travel Blog at http://dswarthout.blogspot.com >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Tagging mailing list >> Tagging@openstreetmap.org >> https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging >> >> > _______________________________________________ > Tagging mailing list > Tagging@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging >
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