[HOT] note to Project Managers: Highway=road

[Paul Norman]

On 2/22/2017 2:42 PM, john whelan wrote:
>
> "If you are unsure of what tag to assign to a road, use the 
> provisional highway=road tag."
>
> Yes but many routing systems ignore this these.  When we mapped with 
> GPS traces we used highway=road because you didn't know if it was a 
> motorway or a footway with steps and that's why many routing systems 
> ignore them and JOSM validation flags them.


highway=road is designed for when you don't know enough about a road. 
The instructions seem correct. If a routing system ignores it, file a 
bug report with the router.