[OSM-talk] Unknown road classifications

[80n]

On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 9:31 AM, Steve Hill <steve at nexusuk.org> wrote:

> On Sun, 11 May 2008, 80n wrote:
>
>  highway=road
>>
>> This is suitably vague, but has a clear enough meaning.
>>
>
> Ah, ok - does this get rendered?  (It isn't on Map_Features - maybe it
> should be).
>

No.  But you are welcome to add it to any of the rendering engines.

I believe we are lacking a whole class of tags for vague information.  I
often find that I want/need to tag something but don't know enough about it
to describe it in detail.  highway=road is a good example of this.

Here's some that I think are/could be useful:
building=yes (rendered)
landuse=grass (rendered)
natural=water (rendered)
highway=road (not-rendered)

It would be particularly useful if Yahoo tracers were to use highway=road as
I'm sure they can rarely tell what kind of road it is from 30,000ft.

80n




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