Dave ... careful with the use of logic where OSM tagging is concerned.
The road values come from the UK system, and need to be adapted to other
places.
So 'unclassified' may be translated to some type of road in another part
of the world that could carry a reference.
On 07/05/18 22:02, Dave Swarthout wrote:
But when a highway has an officially assigned ref doesn't that define
it as "classified"? I don't have a large stake in this discussion but
it would seem to me that any road so ranked by the authorities should
not be tagged as unclassified.
My 2 cents
Dave
On Sun, May 6, 2018 at 12:19 PM, Andrew Hain
<andrewhain...@hotmail.co.uk <mailto:andrewhain...@hotmail.co.uk>> wrote:
The use of the ref tag for highway authority road numbers is
controversial in the UK (no road with a signed number would be as
low as highway=unclassified). There may be better examples in
other countries.
--
Andrew
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*From:* Philip Barnes <p...@trigpoint.me.uk
<mailto:p...@trigpoint.me.uk>>
*Sent:* 06 May 2018 13:28
*To:* tagging@openstreetmap.org <mailto:tagging@openstreetmap.org>
*Subject:* Re: [Tagging] Is it possible to have
highway=unclassified with ref tag?
On Sun, 2018-05-06 at 09:41 +0200, 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%3
<https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:highway%3>
> Dunclassified
> was correct.
It is certainly possible, in the UK all public highways have a
reference number. For lower classifications these references are used
internally by Local Authorities and the references do not appear on
signs. The consensus is that only references that a visible should use
the ref tag in OSM.
For unsigned references we use official_ref and prow_ref which
will not
appear on the standard map but can be rendered on more specialised
maps.
Phil (trigpoint)
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