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> Am 25.06.2015 um 14:33 schrieb Florian Lohoff <f...@zz.de>: > > > From a legal perspective they are not something different ;) Motorway > might be something special - But tertiary_link, primary_link, > secondary_link are not special. > > In the dark ages of OSM somebody overloaded the highway type with > attribution. you seem to point on links while accepting that primary, secondary and tertiary are genuine "highway classes", but they are typically also the same from a legal perspective. By now we have all become used to it, so it doesn't really matter. A cycle street is an attribute, a living street or a pedestrian road is a proper class? motorroad is an attribute, path, footway, cycleway and bridleway are different classes (with overlaps)... You can't tell from keys alone what is a "class". highway=traffic_signals is not a road class for instance, while the same highway=service tag can describe different "road classes". In real life there is no such thing as a road class, there are different parallel kind of road classes (legally) that depend on the context (design/planning/approving/maintenance) and very likely also on the jurisdiction. Cheers Martin _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
