[OSM-talk] Misclassified roads

[Andy Robinson (blackadder-lists)]

Steve Hill [mailto:steve at nexusuk.org] wrote:
>Sent: 10 July 2008 11:46 AM
>To: Andy Robinson (blackadder-lists)
>Cc: talk at openstreetmap.org
>Subject: RE: [OSM-talk] Misclassified roads
>
>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.

You keep saying that but you haven't given a good example. Can you?
I tag many roads as unclassified because there are no signs on the ground to
say it is a classified road. If I subsequently get more data from another
source that says otherwise then fine, I'll retag, but until then as far as
I'm concerned they are unclassified rather than classified roads.

Cheers

Andy