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<p>Hello Mark,</p>
<p>I'm not willing to criticize your contribution, at all, but your
preamble, "<i>Here in Washington State ...</i>", was food for
thought about the fact that sometimes (<i>often?</i>) we are
affected by cultural bias here: the definition of features like
highways may differ a lot depending in which part of planet Earth
you happen to live. My (Italian) concept of a residential road is
surely different from yours (US, Washington State), and one of an
Indian citizen (<i>I travelled a lot in India so maybe I have
rough idea about that</i>), or a Somali (<i>never put foot
there...</i>), just to make a couple of examples.</p>
<p>I think those definitions ar much better left to local
communities, and so seems to think "the wiki" too in its
incommensurable wisdom: see pages like
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tagging">https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tagging</a> <b>or</b>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Highway:International_equivalence">https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Highway:International_equivalence</a>
<b>and</b>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/OSM_tags_for_routing/Access-Restrictions">https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/OSM_tags_for_routing/Access-Restrictions</a></p>
<p>One thing I'm quite sure, anyway, is that "unclassified" should
mean just that: "<i>it doesn't fall in any other classification OR
we don't know cr.p about it (we know there is a road there, but
we don't know how it is)</i>".</p>
<p>Routing decisions too are culture-dependent. As an example, in
India I know of some residential roads which are perfectly normal
roads by daytime, but are closed to traffic by night time (<i>but
maye there is some other kind of more specific restriction for
tha</i>t).</p>
<p>Sergio<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 2019-02-20 20:50, Mark Wagner wrote:<br>
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<pre class="moz-quote-pre" wrap="">Here in Washington State, ...
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