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

[John Smith]

--- On Tue, 4/8/09, Roy Wallace <waldo000000 at gmail.com> wrote:

> I don't like that.
> 
> 1) are you really suggesting using highway=rural for "Other
> streets.
> Not generally through routes."?

No, perhaps that was a bad example as I wasn't explicit.

I would do this:

"No administrative classification. Rural roads typically form the lowest form of the non-Urban interconnecting grid network."

Anything non-connecting would be almost a service road?
 
> 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.

People are reading the meaning of unclassified as a rung higher than residential, and treating residential as access=destination. Which might be fine in Europe but residential roads are used as interconnecting roads in a lot of Australia. Councils and the like just don't plan major through fares very well they just tend to upgrade them if people use them a lot, or that's what it seems to me.

So I'm suggesting to make highway=unclassified as:

"No administrative classification. Unclassified roads typically form the form of the interconnecting grid network of residential and other Urban road ways."