Greg Troxel wrote: > Finally, I'd suggest in the US treating unclassified and residential > as exactly the same in importance, because we have no real notion > of unclassified roads like the UK.
There is one de facto difference in the US, which is that highway=unclassified means that someone has made the active decision to tag the road that way, whereas highway=residential (numerically) probably just means "this was class A41 in TIGER". Therefore it's fair to assume that highway=unclassified in the US has a similar meaning to elsewhere in the developed world - a minor road which is not a significant through traffic artery, and which is paved unless otherwise stated (by a surface= tag). highway=residential in rural areas of the US, however, could mean anything from a drainage ditch via a faint outline of a path to a three-lane tertiary that hasn't been retagged yet. Richard -- Sent from: http://gis.19327.n8.nabble.com/Tagging-f5258744.html _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
