<font face="'PrimaSans BT,Verdana,sans-serif'">highway=rural seems a logical choice. Perhaps just work out a semi-rigid definition, such as:<br><br>Any road which is:<br><br>a) Primarily boarded by land used for primary production and<br>b)
Exists primarily to provide transport to service the properties
adjacent to it. Ie: the majority of drivers on the road are traveling
to or from a property rather than between rural centers.<br><br>Thoughts?</font><br><br>----- Original Message -----<br>From: John Smith <delta_foxtrot@yahoo.com><br>Date: Wednesday, August 5, 2009 11:54 am<br>Subject: Re: [talk-au] residential and unclassified in Australia WAS definition of the main highway-tag<br>To: talk-au@openstreetmap.org<br><br>> <br>> <br>> <br>> --- On Tue, 4/8/09, Martin Koppenhoefer <br>> <dieterdreist@gmail.com> wrote:<br>> <br>> > I have been to different countries too, e.g. to Africa, and<br>> > I don't<br>> > think the road systems are all the same. I know that there<br>> > is big<br>> > differences. But this doesn't explain why routing shouldn't<br>> > work as<br>> > long as you keep the hierarchy. In the end, you will have<br>> > to drive on<br>> > the roads that are there. There is no possibility if you go<br>> > by car. I<br>> > didn't say that I expect e.g. travel time estimations to<br>> > work<br>> > everywhere with the same rules, but simple routing - given<br>> > the<br>> > relative importance - should IMHO make routing possible<br>> > worldwide.<br>> <br>> Liz, he has a point and it's very clear the Germans aren't going <br>> to let this go, the only solution regardless of who is right, <br>> wrong or indiff or who got there first is to replace <br>> highway=unclassified to something else.<br>> <br>> Then make this explicit in the main wiki pages what it exactly means.<br>> <br>> Anyone have any objection to highway=rural?<br>> <br>> <br>> <br>> <br>> _______________________________________________<br>> Talk-au mailing list<br>> Talk-au@openstreetmap.org<br>> http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au<br>>