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

[Alex Mauer]

Jon Bright wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Alex Mauer wrote:
>> highway=unknown?
>>
>> Also, are they even known to be highways?
> 
> I find it easy to have the situation where I know something's a highway, 
> but don't know what sort, its name, etc.  Example: I drive some 30km 
> route, but don't have time to map it properly, note street 
> names/references, etc.  I know that everything in my trace is a highway, 
> because I drove along it.  The fact that there's a highway there is 
> (imho) useful information in itself - and makes for a better map than 
> empty space.  But I'd still like the area flagged as needing more work. 
>   Hence, my wish for highway=unknown.

Definitely.  But that doesn't mean that unwayed segments should be
turned into highway=unknown, which I had thought is what we were talking
about.

-- 
Alex Mauer "hawke"

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