[talk-au] residential and unclassified in Australia WAS definition of the main highway-tag

[John Smith]

--- On Tue, 4/8/09, Martin Koppenhoefer <dieterdreist at gmail.com> wrote:

> I have been to different countries too, e.g. to Africa, and
> I don't
> think the road systems are all the same. I know that there
> is big
> differences. But this doesn't explain why routing shouldn't
> work as
> long as you keep the hierarchy. In the end, you will have
> to drive on
> the roads that are there. There is no possibility if you go
> by car. I
> didn't say that I expect e.g. travel time estimations to
> work
> everywhere with the same rules, but simple routing - given
> the
> relative importance - should IMHO make routing possible
> worldwide.

Liz, he has a point and it's very clear the Germans aren't going to let this go, the only solution regardless of who is right, wrong or indiff or who got there first is to replace highway=unclassified to something else.

Then make this explicit in the main wiki pages what it exactly means.

Anyone have any objection to highway=rural?