Nathan - there's some form of setting in your email account that means that every time you reply to a thread we see a new thread starting (dropping the Re: prefix, maybe?). This makes it very hard to follow the thread, as the emails get out of order.
On the specific example, in the UK these would be tertiarys: an ordinary street that serves a "through" or within-city distribution function. They'd have to be pretty dominated by the traffic (effectively part of a gyratory) before they got tagged as primary_link On the general question of links, I think the wiki may be wrong, in that the link between a primary and a trunk should probably be a primary_link, not a trunk_link. This is most likely to avoid the situation where you get an ugly join between ways. However, there doesn't appear to be consensus even among mainstream UK renderers (OS and A-Z are different), so I have limited hopes on arriving at a universal consensus. I've adopted the OS convention (everything to the lower level) locally, because it renders better. I think I'll start a survey of what different map brands do on the wiki page. {Before you all shout, a link between a motorway and a trunk should be a motorway_link; that's a special case for motorways, because motorways are roads with special laws} Richard On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 10:27 AM, Andre Engels <andreeng...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 9:55 AM, Simone Saviolo > <simone.savi...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Seeing the pictures, in fact, I wouldn't tag them as links either. >> IMHO, they're not really links, they're just streets that happen to >> offer a connection between the two main roads. > > I agree, _link does not seem to apply well to that type of street. My > preferred solution would be to treat them as normal roads, but > 'upgrade' them (from residential to secondary or something like that) > to denote their importance for through-traffic. > > > -- > André Engels, andreeng...@gmail.com > > _______________________________________________ > Tagging mailing list > Tagging@openstreetmap.org > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging > _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging