Functional classification - not for newbies
For the arterial roads - down to classification of primary and secondary roads
can be done to allow people to select major roads when traveling through an
area.
These roads indicate a preferred traveling route. However in some places these
roads
Maybe we should describe unclassified roads in the Philippine context as roads
within verified and/or urban areas that are of mixed use (commercial, retail,
industrial, residential, farmland), while the residential roads can be
described as a road in either urban or rural areas that are within
I feel we should simplify it (although not too much), not everything
here is applicable:
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:highway
Another example, I don't feel like using the tag living_street.
Here's the highway length stats to give us a general idea what highway
tags are currently in use:
is very
welcome :-)
http://idisk.mac.com/michael.riber//Public/osmph/Road Types 0.0.doc
From: maning sambale emmanuel.samb...@gmail.com
To: OSM-PH talk-ph@openstreetmap.org
Sent: Fri, January 22, 2010 8:47:57 PM
Subject: Re: [talk-ph] changes of road types
On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 10:50 PM, riber101-...@yahoo.com wrote:
Looking at the length of road of the different types this seem to underline
the problem.
Motorway, Trunk, Primary, secondary and tertiary should only be a tiny
fraction of all the roads.
The bulk of the roads should be of
Hi,
Reviewing the map reveals that many places roads seems to have too high
of a classification, misleading people to use roads that are not meant
for a lot of traffic.
From an overall perspective the classification of roads should be used
to guide people which roads to prefer.
+1
I'm
Let me just remind that whatever comes up as a consensus please add
them in the wiki:
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/WikiProject_Philippines/Mapping_conventions
Excellent discussion btw.
On Sat, Jan 23, 2010 at 6:41 AM, Ray rayosm1...@yahoo.com wrote:
Hi,
Reviewing the map reveals that
Hi everybody,
I use a similar approach to Eugene.
Smallest roads = unclassified if industrial or with few houses, residential if
the area is, well, residential...
Biggest roads and main links crossing the city = primary
The others secondary or tertiairy.
Trunc roads should be reserved for
