[OSM-talk] highway=residential for rural ways?

[Valent Turkovic]

On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 3:34 PM, Nick Whitelegg
<Nick.Whitelegg at solent.ac.uk> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> My understanding is that rural roads ("country lanes" as they are called
> in the UK) should be highway=unclassified. However if there is a small
> housing estate or residential road in a village, it should be
> highway=residential.
>
> Cue long debate on this ;-)

This is now how wiki says it should be mapped, why is that?!?
If you check: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tagging_samples/out_of_town

There is a clear definition on what unclassified is, and that are only
really "unimportant" roads, so to say.

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