[OSM-talk] To John Bright (unwayed segments to unclassified ways)

[Thomas Wood]

On 9/26/07, Richard Fairhurst <richard at systemed.net> wrote:
> Jon Bright wrote:
>
> > Indeed - I've had this problem in my "home" area.  We could really do
> > with two things:
> >
> >   - highway=unclassified - it's a highway with no official classification
> >   - highway=unknown - for when it's known to be a highway, but it's not
> > known what kind it is.  The Validator could then flag these things up as
> > "needs more work"...
>
> I'm taking the approach that untagged ways are the new unwayed
> segments. So anything I create from segments simply goes in as a way,
> no tags (except for created_by). Potlatch displays such ways in a
> different colour, making it easy to see what needs more work - don't
> know about JOSM/Validator.
>
JOSM/Validator flags them as errors.

-- 
Regards,
Thomas Wood
(Edgemaster)