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

Shaun McDonald shaun at shaunmcdonald.me.uk
Thu Aug 6 13:49:36 BST 2009


On 6 Aug 2009, at 12:06, John Smith wrote:

>
> --- On Thu, 6/8/09, Richard Mann <richard.mann.westoxford at googlemail.com 
> > wrote:
>
>> Routers can look for an abutters tag just as easily as
>> using an urban area polygon.
>

The abutters tag is dwindling in use as landuse polygons should be  
used instead as the new way of doing things.

> They don't always exist either. That's the problem, lots of  
> Australia is just blank or very near to it.
>

That is a lack of data problem, there is nothing that you can do about  
it other than go out and do some mapping!

Shaun

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