[OSM-talk] highway=minor (Was:More on osmarender)

[Dean Earley]

>>> Also, I noticed that highway=minor isn't being rendered by the 
>>> current osm-map-features.xml. Do people think that just adding 
>>> "|minor" to all the unclassified tag entries is the right thing to 
>>> do, or should we come up with some rendering between unclassified and 
>>> secondary for these roads?
>>
>> I was using minor but have since changed them all to unclassified but 
>> I do think there should be a highway=tertiary as well (IIRC, C roads 
>> do exist but are hard to identify)
>> This would allow for majorish roads that are technically "unclassified".
> 
> I notice that highway=minor seems to have vanished from map features. 

It was originally (mistakingly) added by me after seeing one of the 
pages (pre the highway change) mention it.

> This isn't ideal, since:
> a) there's a bunch of data out there that uses it that hasn't been changed
> b) there is a big differnce between many c roads, and many tiny country
>    lanes, and it'd be good to be able to spot that without looking at the
>    width (if given)

Even the OS has two grades of "unclassified". I think it is whether it 
has central lines or not. These are also rendered at two different sizes 
on their map.

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