Re: [Talk-GB] Primary or Trunk?

2013-11-03 Thread Jonathan
Sorry if I've not seen the old posts on this, the wiki pages are contradictory which is why I asked the question. In the UK we are defining Trunk or Primary based on some arbitrary definition not on anything that is of use to any user or renderer. What we should be mapping is reality, so

Re: [Talk-GB] Primary or Trunk?

2013-11-03 Thread Robert Norris
Sorry if I've not seen the old posts on this, the wiki pages are contradictory which is why I asked the question. In the UK we are defining Trunk or Primary based on some arbitrary definition not on anything that is of use to any user or renderer. What we should be mapping is reality, so

Re: [Talk-GB] Primary or Trunk?

2013-11-03 Thread Tom Hughes
On 03/11/13 19:41, Tom Hughes wrote: On 03/11/13 19:07, Jonathan wrote: What we should be mapping is reality, so that people can use that data to build on. Whether a road is signed in Green, Pink or Purple tells a user nothing, it may have a legal definition but that is all. The tag we give

Re: [Talk-GB] Primary or Trunk? PITA?

2013-11-03 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, On 03.11.2013 21:51, Jonathan wrote: I've just googled PITA and it would appear that it stands for Pain In The Ass. Yeah, it's a common colloquial term for things that make life harder instead of easier, and used on this particular list quite often. I agree that it might sound offensive to

Re: [Talk-GB] Primary or Trunk?

2013-11-03 Thread Shaun McDonald
On 3 Nov 2013, at 20:17, Robert Norris rw_nor...@hotmail.com wrote: Sorry if I've not seen the old posts on this, the wiki pages are contradictory which is why I asked the question. In the UK we are defining Trunk or Primary based on some arbitrary definition not on anything that is of

Re: [Talk-GB] Primary or Trunk?

2013-11-03 Thread Richard Mann
At least we don't have the situation in Copenhagen, where route 16 goes from being a motorway to a primary to a trunk to a primary to a trunk to a tertiary. It's wider than Euston Road as it goes past the centre of the city... http://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=13/55.6940/12.5479

[Talk-GB] Primary or Trunk?

2013-11-02 Thread Jonathan
This question is really aimed at UK roads but the same may apply to other countries. I'm not clear with the distinction of a Trunk road in the UK. The wiki suggests a trunk road is high performance roads that don't meet the requirement for highway

Re: [Talk-GB] Primary or Trunk?

2013-11-02 Thread Tom Hughes
On 02/11/13 18:47, Jonathan wrote: I'm not clear with the distinction of a Trunk road in the UK. The wiki suggests a trunk road is high performance roads that don't meet the requirement for highway http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:highway=motorway