[OSM-talk] mark a way as secondary

[Lars Aronsson]

Immanuel Scholz wrote:

> Well, this is a part of the definition, I dislike even more. Map 
> Features suggest using "railway=tram".

Without knowing, I guess that highway=footpath and railway=tram is 
a (failed) attempt to introduce a hierarchical classification 
something like

 way.terrestial.footpath
 way.terrestial.paved.motorway
 way.terrestial.rails.tramway
 way.waterway.canal.canoepath

Note however, that the last part is unique on its own, so it would 
suffice to describe class=footpath, motorway, tramway, canoepath.

For the time being, I'm using the edit applet to draw line 
segments, and occasionally I use ways as a convenient means to 
assign class attributes to a group of line segments.


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