[OSM-talk] definition of the main highway-tag

[Greg Troxel]

Martin Koppenhoefer <dieterdreist at gmail.com> writes:

> 2009/7/31 Greg Troxel <gdt at ir.bbn.com>:
>> So probably the renderers need a way to show unclassified as less
>> important than tertiary.
>
> they (t at h, mapnik, cyclemap) are already doing this.

Sorry, I meant 'lower than tertiary and more important than
residential'.  I don't see unclassified showing up more than
residential, and I don't see it in the map key on the main osm site.

>> And perhaps 'residential' should be redefined as "only used by people
>> who are traveling to a location on that road or a less important road
>> that branches off it", removing the 'residential' notion.
>
> no, redefinition of widely used main tags (used according to the
> existent definition, not updating the definition to common usage)
> doesn't seem a good idea to me. I suggest to update your local tagging
> guidelines (can't check them now due to problems of the wiki-server,
> or your link was misspelled).

In that case we need a parallel tag to unclassified, meaning local-only
but without the residential notion.  But around me there aren't enough
such roads to worry about, and they're all tagged residential from
massgis import anyway :-)
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