[OSM-talk] talk Digest, Vol 70, Issue 76

[Mike Harris]

There may be a caveat here regarding the use of 'unclassified' - at 
least in the UK where it tends to have a specific meaning, i.e. C-roads 
and below (the ones usually rendered yellow on OS mapping), rather than 
its straightforward meaning of 'not otherwise specified'. Clearly there 
is room here for national / regional differences and I am not suggesting 
a definitive answer.

However, I would not use 'unclassified' for the above reason nor 
'residential' if there were no houses and it was rural rather than  
urban. I would normally go for track - but add sufficient further tags 
(tracktype= and/or surface=) to make the physical condition clearer. 
This also helps with the rendering - although we don't map fr the 
renderer do we ;-) ;-) ....

Mike

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