[OSM-talk] Visually detect missing roads

[Stephan Knauss]

Dave F. writes:

> On 17/09/2014 23:30, Stephan Knauss wrote:
>> In Google the road is listed as a major highway.
> Are you interpreting this data from Google's visual render or extracting  
> it from their database?

It's coming from their database. Google does expose a classification  
through the v3 API. My map does consider the road types "arterial" and  
"highway" as major and "local" as minor. For OSM data unclassified and  
higher is considered major.

Stephan