[talk-au] Australian_Road_Tagging - unclassified

[James Livingston]

On 14/08/2009, at 7:26 PM, John Smith wrote:
> The problem is some/all routing software doesn't treat residential  
> as through roads, but do treat unclassified as through roads.
>
> Effectively highway=residential means highway=[residential| 
> unclassified] and access=destination.
>
> I realise we're not supposed to tag for the renderer, but this isn't  
> quite the same thing

I see it as exactly the same thing, you're tagging it so that it works  
better with certain pieces of software, due to that making incorrect  
assumptions. Although it may practically do so in some parts of  
europe, highway=residential doesn't imply access=destination.

> as they've coded to a specific definition of residential/ 
> unclassified that they interrupted it as. We can either align  
> ourselves with this definition or have routing go screwy on us.

We could fix the routing software, or the conversion from OSM data to  
whatever format the router uses so that it doesn't treat them as such.