Paul Johnson wrote: First off I think this would have been better off being posted in Tagging.
> The highway=* key seems to have some seriously inconsistent usage right > now. > > highway=trunk, cycleway, footway, track, and motorway all speak to > physical characteristics of the way itself. No it doesn't. Physical characteristics are things that are dealt with by tags such as surface, width, incline etc. > But primary/secondary/tertiary seem to speak more to administrative > features of routes that run > over the way. > Can you explain what you mean by 'administrative features' please. > Perhaps it's time to deprecate primary/secondary/tertiary on the way and > make these three highway= tags part of route relations, similar to how > cycleways have NCN/RCN/LCN respectively. > You seem to be confusing a highway with a route. A route can run on numerous different types of highway. NCN etc. is the descriptive name of a route not the highway designation. I think your comparing oranges with apples. Cheers Dave F. _______________________________________________ newbies mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/newbies
