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

[Martin Koppenhoefer]

2009/8/6 Liz <edodd at billiau.net>:
> On Thu, 6 Aug 2009, John Smith wrote:
>> > And suddenly changing the meaning of a widely used tag is a
>> > really,
>> > really bad idea.
>>
>> Well I was right, it is too ambiguous :)
>
> and then we find out that whatever "track" translates to in German is not the
> same as what "track" means in Au.
> so again we have widely used tags who are about to change their meaning

actually track implies even within Germany different things (legally,
due to the federal organisation), as in "Baden-Württemberg" it is
generally forbidden to use them even without special signs, where in
the rest of Germany you can use them if there is not a sign to forbid
it (which in some parts is nearly always, in others it is generally
tolerated but not recommended to use).

cheers,
Martin