> Most residential roads now are tagged as unclassified, I just > have to list them, determine if the default fits, then retag them as > highway=road.
Andy replied: "Tagging roads that you know well as "highway=road" sounds like a mistake" +1 I agree. Tagging highway=road means: I don't have any idea what sort of road this is (but I can see it on the satellite imagery). I hope these roads are never considered to be routable. The mkgmap program's standard style defaults to that conclusion, IIRC. I think of it more or less as a place holder, a way that needs a closer look. Others have stated that they think of an unclassified way as something having more significance than a residential way while still being less important than a tertiary highway. (By the way, in Thailand, coincidentally, a tertiary highway is the lowest class of highway that carries a ref.). And that has been my assumption right along. Where do we stand on that question? Is that the correct question to b asking? On Sat, Feb 23, 2019 at 8:16 PM Peter Elderson <pelder...@gmail.com> wrote: > I was thinking further about the idea that came up here: deduct road type > from the landuse=residential. It's different than current usage, and I dont > think it is feasable. > > > Vr gr Peter Elderson > > > Op za 23 feb. 2019 om 14:02 schreef Andy Townsend <ajt1...@gmail.com>: > >> On 23/02/2019 11:36, Peter Elderson wrote: >> > The tagging scheme should have a clear intention to facilitate >> > rendering and routing. Then renderers and routers know what there is, >> > so they can decide how to handle it. >> >> >> To be clear, "highway=road" is used when it _isn't_ clear what the >> classification should be. >> >> >> > >> > If residential area means that road class is highway=residential >> > unless taggted otherwise, that should be made very clear. >> >> >> No, it doesn't. >> >> >> > At the moment, I don't think it is clear, and road tagging in >> > residential areas in Nederland certainly does not follow this principle. >> >> >> That's good! >> >> >> > If the scheme is adopted and very clearly documented, I could adjust >> > the residential road tagging in my village (pop 25.000) in a couple of >> > hours. Most residential roads now are tagged as unclassified, I just >> > have to list them, determine if the default fits, then retag them as >> > highway=road. >> >> >> Tagging roads that you know well as "highway=road" sounds like a mistake. >> >> >> > >> > The problem with such a default of course is: if the area is altered, >> > roads may (and will) unintentionally change because suddenly the >> > default applies or no longer applies. Also, wouldn't renderers and >> > routers will have to deal with roads crossing the border of a >> > residential area suddenly changing types, without a node to tie the >> > action to? >> >> >> I think there's been a miscommunication here - there is no such >> default. It's certainly not your fault - English as used to describe >> roads in the UK is the problem, with "unclassified" meaning a particular >> explicit classification. >> >> Best Regards, >> >> Andy >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> 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
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