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CartoCSS project focused on the Humanitarian Data Model
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highway=residential and highway=unclassified are rendered in a different way #233

Closed matkoniecz closed 10 years ago

matkoniecz commented 10 years ago

The two highway types are typically considered to be almost the same. As result in OSM dataset residential and unclassified types are used interchangeably, without correlation to anything, even single road may switch between these two types.

HDM is unique in not only rendering them in different ways but also with a significant difference. Is it intentional? I would suggest to switch to unified styling.

Or maybe style choice is intentional and it is attempt to consider these two road types as separate, with highway=residential used for roads with smaller traffic (it is displayed in style similar or the same as highway=living_street).

Examples: http://www.openstreetmap.org/?mlat=50.07770&mlon=19.87550#map=18/50.07770/19.87550&layers=H http://www.openstreetmap.org/?mlat=50.08205&mlon=19.84839#map=18/50.08205/19.84839&layers=H (random parts of road is highway=unclassified, random are highway=residential)

skorasaurus commented 10 years ago

Yes, it's intentional.

In other countries, including many Hot activations in Africa, unclassified describes " The roads serving for interconnection of smaller towns and villages "

matkoniecz commented 10 years ago

As I am sure that redefining highway key is really bad idea (note "Way The next most important roads in a country's system. (Often link smaller towns and villages.) " for highway=secondary on http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Highway ) and is not going to end well it is an obvious WONTFIX.