Joe Richards wrote: > I've been enjoying sketching/tracing from Yahoo aerial imagery in Potlatch > (hey some people knit or do crosswords, I find _this_ relaxing!). I recently > discovered that the default 'highway' tag for roads taken from imagery is > highway=road (_not_ highway=unclassified as would seem logical!) > http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Yahoo!_Aerial_Imagery#How_to_sketch.3F > > If that is the case, why does Potlatch not offer highway=road as one of its > presents, under the little car icon?
You're thinking of the wrong "unclassified". Unclassified here does not mean the road in OSM is not classified, or does not have a better designation, it means that it is designated as "unclassified" (that is: not motorway, primary, secondary, tertiaty) in the real world. The OSM equivalent of a road for which the correct designation is not know is road. So Potlatch does it as it should. See also <http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:highway%3Dunclassified> Regards, Maarten _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
