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

[Roy Wallace]

On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 12:59 PM, John Smith<delta_foxtrot at yahoo.com> wrote:
> [ highway=rural means ] "No administrative classification. Rural roads typically form the lowest form of the non-Urban interconnecting grid network."
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> Anything non-connecting would be almost a service road?

Sounds ok. But you would need to define "urban".

> 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.
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> 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."

That definition confuses me. "Unclassified roads form...the...network
of residential...ways". That doesn't make sense. Is "the network of
residential and other urban road ways" highway=residential or
highway=unclassified?

Do you mean the following?:

1) highway=residential is used for roads that are in any "urban" or
"non-urban" areas accessing or around residential areas" AND are not
"important" enough to be highway=unclassified

2) highway=unclassified is used for roads that are in any "urban" area
(including residential) that are more "important" than
highway=residential AND are not "important" enough to be
highway=tertiary