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

[John Smith]

--- On Thu, 6/8/09, Richard Fairhurst <richard at systemed.net> wrote:

> That's proposing highway=rural as something less
> significant than tertiary
> (bad, we already have unclassified for that), not something
> less significant
> than unclassified (good, we don't have anything like that
> in rural areas).

The distinction is that highway=rural isn't as well maintained, or has as much traffic as highway=residential, so if residential is lower than unclassified, then rural is lower than residential, but higher than track