I did some of that mapping (especially the off-road) and would defend most if not all of the road tagging - there is nothing wrong with 'unclassified' when it goes between villages or between parts of a village and does not have much in the way of continuous housing. Take a look at Google Earth or similar satellite imagery and see whether you would agree - bearing in mind that I live only about 25 km from there! (;>)
Mike Harris > -----Original Message----- > From: Valent Turkovic [mailto:valent.turko...@gmail.com] > Sent: 16 September 2009 19:56 > To: talk@openstreetmap.org > Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] highway=residential for rural ways? > > On Wed, 16 Sep 2009 14:34:28 +0100, Nick Whitelegg wrote: > > > My understanding is that rural roads ("country lanes" as they are > > called in the UK) should be highway=unclassified. However > if there is > > a small housing estate or residential road in a village, it > should be > > highway=residential. > > I took a random look at UK: > http://www.openstreetmap.org/? > lat=52.79617&lon=-0.03229&zoom=15&layers=B000FTF > > and it seams like unclassified tag is also used in > villages/towns, generally overused... IMHO. > > > > -- > pratite me na twitteru - www.twitter.com/valentt > http://kernelreloaded.blog385.com/ > linux, blog, anime, spirituality, windsurf, wireless > registered as user #367004 with the Linux Counter, > http://counter.li.org. > ICQ: 2125241, Skype: valent.turkovic > > > > _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
