Steve Hill wrote: > On Tue, 13 May 2008, Andy Robinson (blackadder-lists) wrote: > >> This is an example of confusing the physical space with the legal >> administrative description. > > Yes, but sadly the highway tag is defined in Map Features to encompass > that confusing mixture of physical and legal descriptions. :) > > (It is something we should probably try to move away from, but that's > another discussion).
Apologies to those who've heard me blether on about this before, but in my mind the highway tag indicates "purpose". In other words: what's the way there for? In the UK, at least, the administrative category (M, A-primary, A, B etc.) usually correlates pretty well to the purpose (in fact, one influences the other). But occasionally there's a really glaring discrepancy between purpose and category. In which case, we follow the "Oxford High Street Rule": tag for purpose, but make sure the administrative category is still recorded. (The High Street in Oxford is nominally the A420, so we tag ref=A420, but it's no good as a through-route - the bollards are a bit of a giveaway - so we tag highway=tertiary.) Skimming the thread, your road sounds like highway=unclassified; designation=bridleway. Or something - finding a consensus for designation= is left as an exercise for the reader. cheers Richard _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/talk