[Tagging] Clarification unclassified vs residential

[Andy Townsend]

On 24/02/2019 14:25, djakk djakk wrote:
>
> I think we should decorrelate the attributes of a road : its 
> administrative class, its importance in the road network (at least 5 
> levels), its physical characteristics (motorway-like, two large lanes, 
> link=yes ...), possibly its traffic characteristics.
>
> So we can tag a secondary motorway or a primary road through a 
> residential area or an official motorway with pedestrians actually 
> walking on it.
>
> So that we’ll unify osm road classification through the world 
> (remember the highway=trunk issue ;-))
>

It's a noble aim, but unfortunately the first thing that springs to mind 
is https://xkcd.com/927/ :)

However, some of the stuff on 
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/User:Djakk/new_tagging_scheme_for_roads 
I definitely agree with, and in some cases actually do do myself - like 
trying to capture the physical characteristics wherever relevant.

Best Regards,

Andy