[OSM-talk] "Unsurfaced road" and "Byway"?
Nick Whitelegg
Nick.Whitelegg at solent.ac.uk
Sun Dec 16 12:52:40 GMT 2007
Byway (highway=byway) is an unsurfaced track in the countryside with foot,
horse, bike and car rights - part of the UK rights of way system. They are
almost never found in towns. Typically waymarked as a right of way, though
some aren't.
Unsurfaced (highway=unsurfaced; example = Rownhams Court, Southampton near
the Ordnance Survey building) is a residential road with a rough, non-made
up surface. They'll normally have a name and houses along them.
The main OSM renderers show both the same way, I believe, but Freemap
differentiates - showing byways as solid red lines, and unsurfaced roads
the same way as the main OSM renderers.
Nick
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