[talk-au] Wrong way round the roundabout

[Roy Wallace]

On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 2:34 PM, Steve Bennett <stevagewp at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> highway=unclassified is a truly awful tag. I believe it made sense in the
> UK, where that's an actual category of road, but it's very hard to apply
> here, and it's really not clear what the difference between unclassified,
> residential, and service is. I see people using unclassified for roads
> within business parks, factories, airports etc but I don't think it's right.

My 2 cents: anything that is less important than tertiary is:

1) if it is a named/public road:
 * residential if lined primarily with people's homes and used
primarily by people accessing those homes
 * unclassified otherwise
2) service otherwise (unnamed or restricted access)

When I say "named/public" I mean it has a normal street sign and is
accessible to the general public. I'm not suggesting this is a nice
tagging scheme, but it's what I use, and at least it isn't "very hard
to apply" here, IMHO.