[OSM-talk] Misclassified roads

Steve Hill steve at nexusuk.org
Thu Jul 10 11:46:07 BST 2008


On Thu, 10 Jul 2008, Andy Robinson (blackadder-lists) wrote:

> But any automatic retagging would change those roads which are truly
> unclassified (and maybe have been surveyed by others) to highway=road.

Yes, and they would have to be resurveyed because at the moment it is 
impossible to tell which roads are truely unclassified and which are 
mistagged.

> If there is doubt on specific roads then either get out there and check them
> or add an extra tag giving your reasons for querying them.

The problem is that it isn't specific roads - the vast majority of roads 
tagged as highway=unclassified seem to be in question.

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