[talk-au] Australian_Road_Tagging - unclassified

[John Smith]

--- On Sat, 15/8/09, James Livingston <doctau at mac.com> wrote:
> 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.

This isn't an incorrect assumption problem, this is a problem with the information on the main map features page being ambiguous enough that you can take it either way. Who ever wrote the Australia Tagging Guidelines assumed one thing and other people have assumed another and both are correct.

> 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.

Yes but the bigger issue is at present people have interrupted things differently leaving OSM data in an inconsistent state which is bad in general.