On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 08:59, Martin Koppenhoefer<dieterdre...@gmail.com> wrote: >> The problem is that there is a continuous hierarchy of roads in terms of >> importance, and when you get huge numbers of roads in the city the jump >> From tertiary to residential/unclassified is too big and people tag >> roads that aren't really tertiary as tertiary. I'm seeing a bit of that >> in Belmont (near Camridge, MA). > > well, I personally consider a tertiary road to be quite small, because > it is only on the 4th position (after trunk, primary, secondary), so > it must be of little importance, otherwise it will be at least a > secondary street.
Agreed. When I've been tagging, tertiary roads are the street you take to get from one side of the neighborhood to the other - residential, but To paraphrase a post in one of the US tagging talk pages on the Wiki, this is what my tags end up being: Motorway: More than one grade-separated intersection in a row -- David J. Lynch djly...@gmail.com _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk