[Tagging] highway=unclassified

[Nathan Edgars II]

On 7/29/2011 9:17 AM, Greg Troxel wrote:
>
> Nathan Edgars II<neroute2 at gmail.com>  writes:
>
>> 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):
>
> I don't follow - the only US highway visible is primary, and then a vast
> number of roads are tagged as secondary.  None of the secondary roads
> are so high traffic or important to merit being called primaries.

If all the secondaries are of equal importance, what's wrong with 
keeping them all secondary? If not, bump up some of the more important 
ones. From my limited knowledge of the area, Route 60 might make a good 
primary, as would Mass Ave (despite not being a great through route, 
it's the main road through central Cambridge).