[OSM-talk] Potlatch and sketching from aerial imagery

[Claudius]

Am 02.06.2009 07:37, Ed Loach:
>> FWIW I personally think highway=road is not generally of much
>> use in 90% of
>> cases. Whether you're tracing from Yahoo or NPE or whatever,
>> you can very
>> often work out what highway value the road should have.
>
> Yes, but if highway=road were in the list, people might read up on
> what it meant so that when adding all those country lanes they don't
> tag every single one as tertiary so as not to say that they've not
> been classified (i.e. they avoid the use of unclassified, rather
> than avoid the use of road).
>
> If I get bored at some point I might look at adding it to the
> presets if no-one has already.
>
> Ed

I've added it to the presets as "unknown road" on the bottom of the list.

Claudius