[OSM-talk] two highways use the same way

[Richard Fairhurst]

Rory McCann wrote:

> Personally I think it'd be good to tag the road as primary *and*
> secondary, i.e. that we should have 'highway=primary;secondary'. This
> makes it possible to see how many km of secondary roads there are  
> in an
> area, or to highlight only road 172.

I'm slightly bemused how a road can be both primary and secondary.  
Primary means "better road than secondary". It can't be better than  
itself, surely?

cheers
Richard
clearly in need of more coffee