[OSM-talk] residential and unclassified in Australia WAS definition of the main highway-tag

[Pieren]

On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 5:18 AM, John Smith<delta_foxtrot at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Change highway=unclassified definition to be more explicit, for example:

Are you just speaking about Australia wiki pages or in general ?

> "No administrative classification. Unclassified roads typically form the interconnecting grid network of residential and other Urban road ways."

Here in France, we reuse the highway=tertiary for such things since
tertiary doesn't really exists as administrative level.

> And a new highway classification highway=rural which would be:
> "No administrative classification. Rural roads typically form the lowest form of the non-Urban interconnecting grid network. Rural roads also connect more than one farm to urban areas even if they are no through roads."
> Hopefully the refinement of unclassified and the addition of a new highway type seen mostly in rural areas of Australia and I'm guessing other countries with large areas of sparsely populated areas.

We also have some sparsely populated areas and we were able the handle
them with the existing classification
tertiary/unclassified/residential/track. Didn't had to create another
one which would just add confusion.

Pieren