There are many places where people live in Africa that could be tagged as Rural_Residential if that tag existed.
On Mon, May 7, 2018 at 9:57 AM, Dave Swarthout <daveswarth...@gmail.com> wrote: > yopaseopor wrote: I suggest to reclassify the other roads in their grades > to make unclassified roads unclassified as the name says it. > > +1 > > I agree with your view but this topic is full of issues. In Thailand, for > example, we use "unclassified" for any highway that a) has no ref, and b), > is neither a service road, track, or residential way. It is essentially a > catchall for roads that do not fall into any other category. Again, using > Thailand as an example, there are many small, paved roads that have few or > no homes on them, sort of like a service road. I think some new category > might be warranted. However, proposing such a change and then obtaining > consensus is bound to be a difficult process. > > On Mon, May 7, 2018 at 12:47 PM, yo paseopor <yopaseo...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> The topic is the classification of OSM is not the same as countries have, >> and this make troubles. An UNCLASSIFIED road as its name says it is >> unclassified...but when you need some road classification with a step more >> than tertiary then you use unclassified, and if the road has ref...you put >> in then. Why don't you reorder the tertiary roads? They also catch your >> less thant tertiary roads in your country. Also it is the same problem with >> trunk or primary: whatis the difference between trunk of one lane per >> direction and a primary road? Also you have the issue if you consider the >> administrative classification as we do some countries: a trunk may be a >> trunk because being managed by one specific administration? WTF? Is it good >> for the map? All the roads by a local administration should be >> unclassified? It is a complicated problem. I suggest to reclassify the >> other roads in their grades to make unclassified roads unclassified as the >> name says it. >> >> Salut i carreteres sense classificar (Health and unclassified roads) >> yopaseopor >> >> On Mon, May 7, 2018 at 5:11 PM, Richard Welty <rwe...@averillpark.net> >> wrote: >> >>> On 5/7/18 10:35 AM, Rory McCann wrote: >>> > On 06/05/18 09:41, Mateusz Konieczny wrote: >>> >> I am pretty sure that it is entirely possible to have >>> >> highway=unclassified >>> >> with officially assigned and posted ref number, but I wanted to check >>> >> whatever my edit on >>> >> https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:highway%3Dunclassified >>> >> was correct. >>> > >>> > Yes it is! AFAIR the "highway=unclassified" comes from British usage, >>> > where "unclassified" was a road classification. Yes it sound silly. I >>> > think the refs in the UK aren't signposted, but roads with the >>> > unclassified classification (!) have "U" refs (e.g. "U123", instead of >>> > "A123" etc). >>> by convention if a ref is unposted, many folks use unsigned_ref instead >>> of ref >>> for example, pretty much all the rural paved roads in North Carolina >>> have state >>> assigned refs, but the ordinary town roads are unposted. >>> >>> i can imagine a jurisdiction which uses signed refs on generic >>> "unclassified" roads, >>> but i've never seen one. i would be reluctant to explicitly rule out the >>> possibility. >>> >>> richard >>> >>> -- >>> rwe...@averillpark.net >>> Averill Park Networking - GIS & IT Consulting >>> OpenStreetMap - PostgreSQL - Linux >>> Java - Web Applications - Search >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Tagging mailing list >>> Tagging@openstreetmap.org >>> https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging >>> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Tagging mailing list >> Tagging@openstreetmap.org >> https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging >> >> > > > -- > Dave Swarthout > Homer, Alaska > Chiang Mai, Thailand > Travel Blog at http://dswarthout.blogspot.com > > _______________________________________________ > Tagging mailing list > Tagging@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging > >
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