Hi
What was incorrect with the way these roads were tagged previously?

@JayCBR: there is no rule that populated places must be connected by tertiary roads. In rural parts of Britain it is quite common for small villages and hamlets to only be accessible on very narrow lanes which are most appropriately tagged as unclassified. Do you have local knowledge which indicates the contrary in this case?

osm.wiki/Roads_in_the_United_Kingdom

Busy unclassified through roads
(Generally used only on roads wide enough to allow two cars to pass safely where adequate road markings are in place; may have unsigned categories such as C, D or U: see Tagging Road Numbers, below)

also highway equivalence table

these roads have markings and carry through traffic, also within towns roads with priority over residential cant belong to a lower class like unclassified

i ll try and fix any inconsistencies, some of them roads lose their lines on the way..but anyway is wrong to have major roads within populated places tagged as unclassified

I think you need to discuss this on talk-gb before making such wholesale changes. I very much doubt that the wiki necessarily reflects UK mappers consensus. Certainly enforcing a rule on priority as you suggest would cause many, many minor roads in Britain to be tertiary. Furthermore there is no guarantee of consistency so a road may have priority in some places and not in others (I think in the main priority markings reflect safety & visibility at most junctions of minor roads)

thats UKs wiki, i m not going against anybody, if there is a road connecting populated places that is paved, fits 2 cars and has proper markings, lines etc needs to be tertiary at least

the only thing we could discuss is maybe some refining of the road classification (residential, unclassified, service), i m talking about a tracktype like system

Where are the centreline, road edge markings, two-car width, and significant populated places on osm.org/way/653677282 ?

I've cycled along that road. Have you visited it?

yeah, i may exagerated a bit with some of them, i m going through them again today

Please leave this and explain what you are doing & why on talk-gb. Before proceeding further ensure that what you are doing has the consensus of UK mappers.

You've upgraded many narrow, single-track lanes to tertiary. Some random examples:

https://www.mapillary.com/app/?lat=51.67866536886587&lng=-2.235325500371154&z=15&pKey=51mnsXPvfngBrwkaMUgm9A&focus=photo

https://www.mapillary.com/app/?lat=51.58164995261615&lng=-2.422671681272277&z=15&pKey=Sdlc1_GUhJA3Jk48YcUxBA&focus=photo

https://www.mapillary.com/app/?lat=51.59002959267383&lng=-2.414664616810569&z=15&pKey=tfO_RbWOJQ8HZFZwCqP9DQ&focus=photo

By all means pick out any not-quite-B-roads and spine roads through residential areas, but not the single-track lanes, please. Many of the changed roads even had lanes=1 on them already, a sure sign that they're unlikely to be tertiary.

I'd prefer a revert rather than having to find and fix all these...

i tried fixing everything after checking each single road..some of them were wide with lines and then got narrower..but i also found a lot of them with lines and everything but unclassified..i just didnt imagine trunk and primary roads connected with single lane..i think now everything is in order

This changeset has been reverted fully or in part by changeset 79268097 where the changeset comment is: Reverting some road class changes in the SW of England, following numerous complaints and a couple of revert requests. See osm.org/user_blocks/3376 etc.