This (importance ranking) is something I thought recently. How about
devising a data-driven importance rank? One could priotitize POI that have
a Wikipedia page or even grab publicly available pageview stats from them.
There are numerous ways to implement something good enough, you just have
to be
> From this it sounds like this tagging in OSM is relying too much on
> official classification rather than on real road importance.
>
>
I have always maintained that this is the right way to do it.
Official classification is objective and easy to verify.
"real road importance" is purely
On Wed, 2 Sep 2015 16:32:07 +0900
Andrew Errington wrote:
> > From this it sounds like this tagging in OSM is relying too much on
> > official classification rather than on real road importance.
> >
> >
> I have always maintained that this is the right way to do it.
>
>
Andrew Errington wrote:
> I think that for any particular country, the official classification
> hierarchy should be mapped on to the OSM hierarchy. If this is not
Countries are different in this regard. For example, here we use the
official classification for all rural state operated roads, and
On Wed, Sep 2, 2015 at 3:40 AM, Mateusz Konieczny
wrote:
> Generally following official classification is a good idea (otherwise
> it will be inconsistent) but some exceptions should be expected.
>
> Also, there are many ways to map official classification on to OSM
>
On Wed, 02 Sep 2015 06:54:04 +0900
John Willis wrote:
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> > On Sep 1, 2015, at 9:46 PM, Paul Johnson
> > wrote:
> >
> > presently traverses a staircase!
>
> I currently forget which, but a national road in Japan officially
> becomes a staircase near its
W dniu 02.09.2015 15:55, John Willis napisał(a):
But - most importantly - this implementation is what japanese people
expect and require from their maps, as the shape of the roads gives
users a spatial awareness of where they are - and changing those roads
means making an "inferior" map.
Javbw
> On Sep 3, 2015, at 12:17 AM, Daniel Koć wrote:
>
> It also means that real importance could be tagged one day instead of
> "official" importance, so we have at least something proper once people will
> have what they really want anyway. =}
Rant:
I agree that
> On Sep 2, 2015, at 4:19 PM, Mateusz Konieczny wrote:
>
> From this it sounds like this tagging in OSM is relying too much on
> official classification rather than on real road importance.
And similar to someone printing out an email and faxing it to someone, we have
> On Sep 1, 2015, at 9:46 PM, Paul Johnson wrote:
>
> presently traverses a staircase!
I currently forget which, but a national road in Japan officially becomes a
staircase near its terminus, as the government managed "road" is significant
older than cars, and for
On Tue, 01 Sep 2015 12:59:32 +0100
"Dave F." wrote:
> On 01/09/2015 12:52, Mateusz Konieczny wrote:
> >
> > - I am speaking about value of highway tag in OSM, not the official
> >classification (in many places these may be the same or strongly
> >related - but it
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:highway%3Dmotorway section
"International equivalence" seems to address the point in question for
"motorway"
Similar equivalence sections are present in the wiki pages for trunk and
primary, tertiary (but only for two countries)
They are missing for lower
On Tue, Sep 1, 2015 at 7:17 AM, Mateusz Konieczny
wrote:
> But for example Japan has "national highways" - that generally are
> equivalent of highway=trunk (according to
> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Japan_tagging ) but "Note that a
> little part of Japanese National
On Tue, Sep 1, 2015 at 4:54 PM, John Willis wrote:
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>
> > On Sep 1, 2015, at 9:46 PM, Paul Johnson wrote:
> >
> > presently traverses a staircase!
>
> I currently forget which, but a national road in Japan officially becomes
> a staircase near its terminus,
W dniu 01.09.2015 14:55, Volker Schmidt napisał(a):
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:highway%3Dmotorway [1] section
"International equivalence" seems to address the point in question for
"motorway"
Similar equivalence sections are present in the wiki pages for trunk
and primary, tertiary
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