If highway=gazetted is ambiguous and most people are going to be puzzled by highway=non-existent, might I suggest
highway=planned or highway=proposed (I occasionally find myself (walking) on highway=overgrown – but I am not suggesting adding this.) 2009/10/22 Evan Sebire <e...@sebire.org> > I like 'gazetted_road', but I think it should be 'non-existent'. > > Looking at dictionary.com(which isn't a great reference) nobody would > understand gazetted road, then I tried the best German translator dict.cc > and > it failed. > Googling Gazetted road comes back with variety of answers, none of the > first > 10 results mean non-existent so Gazetted is probably ambiguous. > looks like a clear winner with non-existent. > > Hope this helps > > > On Wednesday 21 Oct 2009 16:36:29 John Smith wrote: > > 2009/10/22 Evan Sebire <e...@sebire.org>: > > > In Melbourne people sometimes use the term 'unmade' for non-sealed > roads. > > > So perhaps something clearer like gazetted would suit Australia. > > > Someone on another list mentioned 'non-existent' being better for > > > non-native English speakers. But I think this doesn't really matter as > > > application interfaces can translate it anyway. > > > > It would be better if we could come up with something that works well > > for most people without expecting software to translate it. > > > > If unmade is already ambiguous it would seem like a bad idea to use it. > > > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-au mailing list > Talk-au@openstreetmap.org > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au >
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