[Tagging] Clarification unclassified vs residential

[Sergio Manzi]

Hello Mark,

I'm not willing to criticize your contribution, at all, but your preamble, "/Here in Washington State .../", was food for thought about the fact that sometimes (/often?/) we are affected by cultural bias here: the definition of features like highways may differ a lot depending in which part of planet Earth you happen to live. My (Italian) concept of a residential road is surely different from yours (US, Washington State), and one of an Indian citizen (/I travelled a lot in India so maybe I have rough idea about that/), or a Somali (/never put foot there.../), just to make a couple of examples.

I think those definitions ar much better left to local communities, and so seems to think "the wiki" too in its incommensurable wisdom: see pages like https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tagging *or* https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Highway:International_equivalence *and* https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/OSM_tags_for_routing/Access-Restrictions

One thing I'm quite sure, anyway, is that "unclassified" should mean just that: "/it doesn't fall in any other classification OR we don't know cr.p about it (we know there is a road there, but we don't know how it is)/".

Routing decisions too are culture-dependent. As an example, in India I know of some residential roads which are perfectly normal roads by daytime, but are closed to traffic by night time (/but maye there is some other kind of more specific restriction for tha/t).

Sergio

On 2019-02-20 20:50, Mark Wagner wrote:
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> Here in Washington State, ...
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