[OSM-talk] Oxford High Street classification (Was: Bus sluice/gate)

[Rob Reid]

Gervase Markham wrote the following on 01/12/2007 23:01:
> But the open question is, should 
> highway tags be defined for the benefit of routing algorithms and/or map 
> rendering (one possible view) or should they be defined according to 
> legal classifications, and additional auxiliary clarification tags used 
> in the occasional situation where the legal classification would mislead 
> rendering/routing software.
>
> Granted, I'm new to OSM, but I'd argue for the latter.
>
> Gerv
>   
Quite good coverage of this issue here 
<http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Key:highway>.

rcr