[Tagging] Road hierarchy

Dave Swarthout daveswarthout at gmail.com
Sun Aug 4 18:56:49 UTC 2019


Peter wrote:
My research tells me ‘unclassified’ means classified as ‘unclassified‘,
which is a class of road in the public road system.

I respectfully disagree.
That is only the case where a country has a class of roads they label or
call "Unclassified". In Alaska and Thailand, where I do the bulk of my
mapping, an unclassified highway is just that, it is a highway having no
classification. I consider it higher in the hierarchy than a residential
and lower than a tertiary, although some opinions may differ. Whether paved
or unpaved makes no difference. As long as it connects towns or hamlets in
a reasonable manner, then it is an unclassified highway.

On Sun, Aug 4, 2019 at 10:49 AM Peter Elderson <pelderson at gmail.com> wrote:

> My research tells me ‘unclassified’ means classified as ‘unclassified‘,
> which is a class of road in the public road system. Other roads cannot be
> classified as ‘unclassified’, but should get another classification. Roads
> without classification need a fixme, not a classification as ‘unclassified’.
>
> Mvg Peter Elderson
>
> > Op 4 aug. 2019 om 16:23 heeft Martin Koppenhoefer <
> dieterdreist at gmail.com> het volgende geschreven:
> >
> >
> >
> > sent from a phone
> >
> >> On 4. Aug 2019, at 15:37, Florian Lohoff <f at zz.de> wrote:
> >>
> >> A residential is also an unclassified road.
> >
> >
> > IMHO it is not, as an unclassified road is part of the interconnection
> grid, while a residential road is not
> >
> > Cheers Martin
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