[Tagging] highway=unclassified

[M∡rtin Koppenhoefer]

2011/7/27 Simone Saviolo <simone.saviolo at gmail.com>:
> 2011/7/27 M∡rtin Koppenhoefer <dieterdreist at gmail.com>
> Maybe I'm being picky. What I mean is: we have a worldwide graph of roads,
> or a "network" if we want to call it that. A grid network, to me, sounds
> like an orthogonal grid, like the one you'd find in Torino or New York.


no, I don't think that this was intended


> Of
> course, the roads are interconnecting, otherwise it wouldn't be a network.


I thought this was a common term in English, but as I am not a native
speaker I might be wrong


> Residential roads connect, too: they form a graph whose edges may be less
> important than the other bigger ways, but they're still part of the graph,
> just like tracks and footways.


They are part of the road graph, but not of the interconnecting
network, that is what this sentence is about


> Again, maybe I'm just being picky, but if we can come up with a definition
> that is clear and not an apparent collection of words, all the better.


yes, if you have something better to propose we can use that.


cheers,
Martin