[OSM-talk] Highway tags and other junk

[matthew-osm at newtoncomputing.co.uk]

On Thu, Dec 14, 2006 at 05:01:32PM +0000, Ben Robbins wrote:
> Matthew:  Im awair what a tertiary road is, and the tag has its uses in 
> other countries, but there is no such thing as a C road anymore in the UK.  

Yes, there is.[1]

You just won't see many (if any) actual signs labelling them, so they all look
as if they are unclassified.

> The only differences between unclassified and tertiary's therefore are 
> phisical, and I still think do not belong in the highway group.  If it 

There is often no physical difference between an unclassified road and a
tertiary road, but that doesn't matter; highway is a political definition.

-- 
Matthew

[1] See, e.g. https://www.csduk.com/CSD/RoadworksBulletinBoard.htm, as a list of
    works for Suffolk County Council.