Re: [OSM-talk] [tagging] updated RFC: Highway administrative and physical descriptions

2008-02-22 Thread Daniel Challen
in the UK some main A roads have single lane passing places and 10 MPH speed limits while others are much higher quality than most motorways. Are these not edge cases? Any general case model of classification will fail at the edge cases. No classification system will map cleanly onto the real

Re: [OSM-talk] [tagging] updated RFC: Highway administrative and physical descriptions

2008-02-20 Thread Alex Mauer
Andy Robinson (blackadder) wrote: It's a whole lot easier to add additional tags that are logical and describe the physical properties of the highway specifically. For the physical you I disagree that it's a whole lot easier. As you mention below, who wants to spend hours adding 20 tags to

Re: [OSM-talk] [tagging] updated RFC: Highway administrative and physical descriptions

2008-02-20 Thread Lester Caine
Alex Mauer wrote: Lester Caine wrote: Hmm, that's not what I was going for. I was going for the administrative designation of the road (that is, M, A, B [I gather] in the UK, I-, US, [state abbrev] in the US) . In the US this is closely tied to who maintains it. In Europe it seems to be

Re: [OSM-talk] [tagging] updated RFC: Highway administrative and physical descriptions

2008-02-19 Thread Alex Mauer
Lester Caine wrote: Alex Mauer wrote: I've added a decision tree to the physical section of the page, as well as removed the boulevard designation (since it didn't really add much) I'd like to have some more comments from the UK and german end, as to whether or not A and B roads (and

Re: [OSM-talk] [tagging] updated RFC: Highway administrative and physical descriptions

2008-02-19 Thread Andy Robinson (blackadder)
Alex Mauer wrote: Sent: 18 February 2008 11:16 PM To: talk@openstreetmap.org Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] [tagging] updated RFC: Highway administrative and physical descriptions I've added a decision tree to the physical section of the page, as well as removed the boulevard designation (since

Re: [OSM-talk] [tagging] updated RFC: Highway administrative and physical descriptions

2008-02-19 Thread Lester Caine
Alex Mauer wrote: Lester Caine wrote: Alex Mauer wrote: I've added a decision tree to the physical section of the page, as well as removed the boulevard designation (since it didn't really add much) I'd like to have some more comments from the UK and german end, as to whether or not A and

Re: [OSM-talk] [tagging] updated RFC: Highway administrative and physical descriptions

2008-02-19 Thread Alex S.
Lester Caine wrote: I don't think it applies so much elsewhere - but UK motorways have no pedestrian access - does the same apply on any American routes? US freeways (interstate, etc) do not allow foot traffic, in general. Outside of cities, however, cycles are allowed (inside of cities

Re: [OSM-talk] [tagging] updated RFC: Highway administrative and physical descriptions

2008-02-19 Thread Karl Newman
On Feb 19, 2008 3:16 PM, Alex S. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Lester Caine wrote: I don't think it applies so much elsewhere - but UK motorways have no pedestrian access - does the same apply on any American routes? US freeways (interstate, etc) do not allow foot traffic, in general. Outside

Re: [OSM-talk] [tagging] updated RFC: Highway administrative and physical descriptions

2008-02-18 Thread Alex Mauer
I've added a decision tree to the physical section of the page, as well as removed the boulevard designation (since it didn't really add much) I'd like to have some more comments from the UK and german end, as to whether or not A and B roads (and others?) fit into the highway:admin scheme.