[OSM-talk] [RFC] highway=unclassified currently is too ambiguous, so here's my proposal to fix it.

[Martin Koppenhoefer]

2009/8/5 Elena of Valhalla <elena.valhalla at gmail.com>:
> On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 7:40 AM, John Smith<delta_foxtrot at yahoo.com> wrote:
>> I'm also proposing to introduce a new highway classification for non-urban* areas. That is highway=rural would be for roads generally lesser than residential, generally unsealed but some of them are sealed and they generally only have a single lane depending how zealous the grader driver was feeling.
>
> where would this differ from an highway=track?

well, it's to substitute unclassified, a track is not a street but a
way for agricultural and forestal traffic. The difference is the
function.

cheers,
Martin