On Sat, Jun 4, 2016 at 5:58 AM Greg Troxel <g...@ir.bbn.com> wrote: > > Kevin Kenny <kevin.b.kenny+...@gmail.com> writes: > > > OK, 'residential' if it looks like 'subdivision', 'unclassified' > > otherwise (as long as it's drivable in, say, my daughter's car rather > > than my 4-wheeler). Got it. > > I also see a distinction between residential/unclassified as denoting a > legal road (around me, carved-out parcel wise from the surrounding land) > vs track and some service denoting a non-legal-road. However, others > see the physical and legal attributes as separate. > > My understanding of the description of "unclassified" is unclassified is a step between residential and tertiary. It's a connecting road, minor connector, whatever, that doesn't have residential on it, but it's not high enough in classification to make it a tertiary road.
I usually use it for roads in industrial complexes, loops around malls, business complexes, or other connectors/roads where there's no obvious residential around. Eric
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