[OSM-talk] UK Industrial Estate Roads

[Lester Caine]

Andy Allan wrote:
> 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.

This still does not 'answer the question'.
Which selection should take priority - tag all roads of this type 
'unclassified' or tag some bits 'unclassified' outside private property and 
some 'service' for those inside private property?
I understand the definition of 'unclassified', and many of the 'residential' 
and 'service' roads currently tagged as such ARE 'unclassified'. I would 
expect both 'residential' and 'service' roads to have a default status of 
unclassified, otherwise they would be tagged 'primary' or 'secondary' since 
THAT takes priority over 'residential' and 'service'?
It's a matter of creating some consistency in tagging.

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