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

[Martin Koppenhoefer]

2009/8/5 John Smith <delta_foxtrot at yahoo.com>:
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> --- On Wed, 5/8/09, Shaun McDonald <shaun at shaunmcdonald.me.uk> wrote:
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>> You can determine whether an unclassified road is rural by
>> whether there are other things around in the area. That's
>> the whole point of Geo extensions in databases. you can also
>> do some preprocessing if you need to.
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> That isn't the point, the same key/value pair is being used for 2 completely different purposes and that could mean they need to be rendered differently.

no, I don't see it like this. Unclassified is the lowest street/road
in the interconnecting grid, be it in urban or rural areas. The
physical state might be different, but hey, who uses physical state
for main classification?  ;-)

> Also not all towns are mapped out any where near usable levels in Australia so this wouldn't really be appropriate until such times as they are mapped out.
that's true. Routing should work before all landuses are mapped.