[Tagging] Clarification unclassified vs residential

[Sergio Manzi]

Thanks Greg,  Warin and Marc, I stand corrected on this: "unclassified" is a class of roads and an unclassified road is a "road".

Ooops... my tongue just got twisted!  :-)

Sergio


On 2019-02-21 02:01, Greg Troxel wrote:
> But it doesn't mean that in the UK. It means "in the national road
> system, with a number, but not A B or C".  So it really is a higher
> class than a road which is not ABC and is not unclassified, at least as
> I understand it and observed it.
>
> In OSM we use words by their OSM defintions, not what they ought to mean
> in English!


On 2019-02-21 06:31, Warin wrote:
> No. If you don't know any thing about it then highway=road is the thing to use


On 2019-02-21 09:39, marc marc wrote:
> Le 21.02.19 à 02:01, Greg Troxel a écrit :
>> there is a road there, but we don't know how it is
> that's highway=road

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