[HOT] note to Project Managers: Highway=road
Paul Norman
penorman at mac.com
Thu Feb 23 11:01:34 UTC 2017
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.
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