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

[Martin Koppenhoefer]

2009/8/6 Richard Mann <richard.mann.westoxford at googlemail.com>:
> As indicated, I've had a go at a rewrite of the unclassified page:
>
> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:highway%3Dunclassified
>
> Comments in the usual place (or have your own go at hacking it)
>

actually there are 3 things in the main definition (1st phrase) I
don't consider good ideas:
"Public road without (official) classification, primarily for access
to properties, typically paved, non-residential."

1. classification is not unambiguous (what kind of classification).
What about countries with classification for more kind of streets?
Shall they invent another highway-class for small roads, because there
is a classification for smalles roads in there country?
2. streets primarily or solely for access to properties are IMHO
tagged as service
3. "typically paved" is a definition that depends strongly on context,
and in wide parts of the world I suppose it not to be true

I think this will cause more trouble than it can solve.

cheers,
Martin