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

[Roy Wallace]

On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 12:29 PM, John Smith<delta_foxtrot at yahoo.com> wrote:
> It [ highway=rural ] would essentially replace the meanings on this page for unclassified and unclassified would then be used as the Germans and others in Europe have been using it as a wide-ish industrial road in a urban area.
>
> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Australian_Tagging_Guidelines#Regional_Roads

I don't like that.

1) are you really suggesting using highway=rural for "Other streets.
Not generally through routes."?

2) and are you really suggesting that highway=unclassified be defined
as "a wide-ish industrial road in an urban area"? Width should be
specified with width=*. An "urban area" is too vague. "Industrial
road" is also too vague.