[Tagging] highway=unclassified

Nathan Edgars II neroute2 at gmail.com
Fri Jul 29 12:45:04 BST 2011


On 7/29/2011 7:21 AM, Greg Troxel wrote:
> I think the underlying problem is that there's a big gap between
> tertiary, which should be a road that really is used to go somewhere and
> residential, which more or less means a road that you wouldn't care
> about unless you destination is on or very near it.
>
> Here's an example:
>
>    http://osm.org/go/ZfI4NgRo-
>
> There are way too many roads marked secondary (most of those are not
> state highways, or as important as state highways), yet the secondaries
> are more important than the tertiaries, and the tertiaries are more
> important than the residentials.

That looks fine, except for the lack of primaries. You can see how I've 
handled Orlando (obviously there will be differences in older cities 
like Boston-Cambridge): 
http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=28.5419&lon=-81.3793&zoom=14&layers=M



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