[Tagging] highway=unclassified

[Dave F.]

On 27/07/2011 22:37, M∡rtin Koppenhoefer wrote:
> 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

All roads are interconnected where they join into each other.

To me "interconnecting grid network" is, essentially, three words to 
describe the same thing.

Cheers
Dave F.