[OSM-talk] Help! Changeset reverted without explanation

[John Smith]

On 1 March 2010 05:01, John F. Eldredge <john at jfeldredge.com> wrote:
> However, a given administrative area may well contain country-level, state-level, and county roads.  If a given road is tagged with only a number, what indicates which one of these is meant?  Also, it is not unusual for a stretch of physical roadway to be considered part of both a country-level road and a state-level road, etc.

Which is where the network=* tag comes in, it tells you explicitly if
it's national (network=I), state (network=S) or county (network=CO)

The type of road isn't enough to tell you the administrative information.