[Talk-GB] Classification of roads

[Colin Smale]

> On 08/19/2021 8:50 PM Mark Goodge <mark at good-stuff.co.uk> wrote:
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> On 19/08/2021 19:32, Colin Smale wrote:
> > 
> >> On 08/19/2021 8:03 PM Mark Goodge <mark at good-stuff.co.uk> wrote:
> >> 
> >> These are only OS's opinion, not a legal status,
> > Do you have any idea what criteria OS use? Are they influenced by
> > information they receive from others, such as local authorities, or
> > do they really decide autonomously?
> 
> The documentation merely states that it's "based on usage". What that 
> means in practice, I have no idea!

Exactly - I doubt very much if the OS do their own traffic surveys. I bet they get the "function" from local authorities or the highway authority.