Greg Troxel wrote: > I more or less agree, from the US point of view, except that > highway=residential has a meaning of something that is > legally a road.
highway=residential in the US _largely_ has the meaning "this was imported from TIGER feature code A41 and hasn't been changed". One import - albeit a fairly massive one :) - isn't in itself a reason to strike out on a different way of tagging from the rest of the developed world. > The real bug here is that we need to fix the tagging system to > make clear legal status and type vs. physical condition. The tagging system already does that. You have the access=* tags, operator=* tags, and designation=* tags for the former; and you have surface=*, tracktype=*, lanes=* etc. for the latter. highway=* is a broad overview covering the road's importance - it isn't intended to encapsulate absolutely everything about a road in one magic value. Richard -- View this message in context: http://gis.19327.n5.nabble.com/highway-track-vs-residential-tp5864267p5864408.html Sent from the Tagging mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging