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

[John Smith]

--- On Wed, 5/8/09, Richard Fairhurst <richard at systemed.net> wrote:

> If you are using highway=unclassified in a residential area
> to mean "less
> significant than highway=residential", you're doing it
> completely contrary
> to standard practice. Therefore you are by definition
> wrong.

I didn't say I was doing that at any point in time, I have tried to compare rural roads to residential meaning lesser than residential.

> Where we fail is that we don't have anything less
> significant than
> unclassified for non-residential areas. In particular,
> country roads that
> aren't particularly routable, but still have a passable
> standard of upkeep
> (i.e. a road, not a track).

This is what I was trying to explain.