[OSM-newbies] Tunisia: converting highway=unclassified to highway=road for sketches from aerial imagery

[Cartinus]

On Monday 01 June 2009 13:04:28 Joe Richards wrote:
> I've inadvertently made many of the streets/roads highway=unclassified only
> to discover that this is not actually the most generic/vanilla tag, and
> they should be highway=road for aerial sketches.  What's the best way to
> convert any and all highway=unclassified ways into highway=road for that
> area (without affecting non-highway ways, such as forests).

JOSM has a search function (Ctrl-F) which lets you select all objects of one 
kind. You can then edit properties for all those objects at once.

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m.v.g.,
Cartinus