[OSM-talk] [tagging] Feature Proposal - RFC - h==highway

[Gregory Williams]

[Snip]
> >
> > (I replied quickly this morning before leaving for work and forgot
to
> write
> > my main argument, should never reply in a hurry)
> > With two synonymous tags you can get inconsistent tagging, like a
way
> tagged
> > highway=primary
> > h=secondary
> 
> Now *that* is a good argument. Well, i had thought it was a win-win
> kind of proposal, but i guess it's not entirely so. I'll keep looking
> for other ways to improve efficiency.

In fact I saw exactly that scenario a little earlier this evening. A few
ways with higwhway=service (sic) and highway=unclassified. I've added
some points adjacent to them in OpenStreetBugs for them to be reviewed
for the correct highway type.

Gregory