[OSM-talk] Visually detect missing roads

[John F. Eldredge]

On 09/18/2014 11:07 AM, Stephan Knauss wrote:
> 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
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I think that calling a road tagged as highway=unclassified a "major 
road" is an overstatement.  So, you feel that any road which isn't 
classified as highway=residential, highway=service, or highway=track is 
a major road?

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