Proposal: +1. Thanks The question whether urban "unclassifieds" are at the same level of urban "residentials" can be left to the router/renderer - best not to mention it.
The tagger just needs to be able to describe what is there simply and clearly. A new tag for rural "unclassifieds" would clarify matters, and highway=rural is as good a suggestion as any. It would be better for us to have something we can agree on, rather than having some people use "unclassified", some people seeking to redefine unclassified, and others using highway=track+tracktype=grade1. I'd define a "rural" as a road which is (usually) maintained by a public body, and open to public access, but where only partial provision is made for vehicles travelling in opposite directions to pass (be that lower-grade shoulders, Australian-style or occasional formal or informal widenings, UK-style). Richard On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 6:40 AM, John Smith <delta_foxt...@yahoo.com> wrote: > > Currently highway=unclassified is too ambiguous, and while there was a > proposal to replace this with highway=minor this seems to have gone no where > yet the same problem still exists. > > I'm proposing not to replace highway=unclassified but to clarify it's > meaning to be one thing, that is it has higher volumes of traffic than > residential, but not enough to be considered tertiary. > > I'm also proposing to introduce a new highway classification for non-urban* > areas. That is highway=rural would be for roads generally lesser than > residential, generally unsealed but some of them are sealed and they > generally only have a single lane depending how zealous the grader driver > was feeling. > > Please comment and so forth on the talk page and hopefully this can be > sorted out once and for all. > > http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/highway:rural > > > > > _______________________________________________ > talk mailing list > talk@openstreetmap.org > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk >
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