<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;"><br><div class="plainMail">Hi,<br><br>after a long break from OSM I discoverd the "keep right" website.<br><br><a href="http://keepright.ipax.at/report_map.php?db=osm_XD&zoom=14&lat=14.40516&lon=120.96369&layers=B00T&ch=0%2C30%2C40%2C50%2C60%2C70%2C90%2C100%2C110%2C120%2C130%2C150%2C160%2C170%2C180%2C191%2C192%2C193%2C194%2C201%2C202%2C203%2C204%2C210%2C220%2C231%2C232%2C270%2C281%2C282%2C283%2C284%2C291%2C292%2C293&show_ign=1&show_tmpign=1">http://keepright.ipax.at/report_map.php?db=osm_XD&zoom=14&lat=14.40516&lon=120.96369&layers=B00T&ch=0%2C30%2C40%2C50%2C60%2C70%2C90%2C100%2C110%2C120%2C130%2C150%2C160%2C170%2C180%2C191%2C192%2C193%2C194%2C201%2C202%2C203%2C204%2C210%2C220%2C231%2C232%2C270%2C281%2C282%2C283%2C284%2C291%2C292%2C293&show_ign=1&show_tmpign=1</a> <br><br>For those that don't know. And
 seeing so many errors spurred me into action again. Of course that was before reading this.<br></div><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"><div class="plainMail">As for highway=unclassified, I don't see this of much use in the<br>Philippines.  Unclassified is a legal UK road type and not some road<br>we don't know the proper class.<br><br>Unclassified<br>"No administrative classification. Unclassified roads typically form<br>the lowest form of the interconnecting grid network.<br>Note: This is not a marker for roads where we still need to choose a<br>highway tag (see highway=road for roads that require classification).<br>"<br><br>For people tracing from sat images but are unsure of the actual road<br>type please use highway=road<br><br></div></blockquote>Whilst editing errors I changed some from type "road" to "unclassified"<br><br>Using type "road" causes 3 problems.<br><br>1 The road
 type is not recognised by JOSM (so it reports errors)<br><br>2 Roads of type "road" are not rendered on maps, so I have had to fix roads where someone has traced a road using the SPOT5 data, thinking that the road was not already in the database, causing the road to be entered twice. Wasting peoples time and effort.<br><br>3 Routing software will not recognize the roads, and so won't route along them. I would rather travel along an incorrectly classified road, rather than have no route to a destination.<br><br>Just my 2 centavos<br><br>Cheers, Ian<br><div class="plainMail"><br></div></td></tr></table><br>