[OSM-talk] UK Industrial Estate Roads

[Andy Allan]

On Fri, Nov 7, 2008 at 11:00 PM, Lester Caine <lester at lsces.co.uk> wrote:

> The purpose of the service road is to service an industrial area - therefore
> it is not simply unclassified. Unclassified is only appropriate - in my
> opinion - when the road has no identified other use. Why bother with
> residential or service if they are all going to be called unclassified?

highway=unclassified is a specific classification, just one with a
confusing name. It has special meaning in some countries, including
the UK.

See http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Tag:highway%3Dunclassified
for more details.

Cheers,
Andy