Re: [Talk-us] Road classification

2008-12-17 Thread William Gresham
Hi, I'm a member in New Jersey and I've usually reserved any classifications for roads that have any numerical designation assigned to them. In New Jersey, I designate trunk roads sparingly, and hardly ever for roads maintained by the county (with some exceptions for longer 500-series county hi

[Talk-us] REMINDER: OPENSTREETMAP SACRAMENTO MAPPING PARTY 12/20 & 12/21!!!

2008-12-17 Thread Brandon Aguirre
Hello all! The OpenStreetMap Sacramento Mapping Party is this weekend at The Temple Coffee House in central Sacramento. There will be lots of hiking-mapping, urban-mapping and bike-mapping that can be done, but if the weather doesn't agree with you, we can always spend the weekend doing a

Re: [Talk-us] Road classification

2008-12-17 Thread Scott Atwood
On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 2:41 PM, Jason Straub wrote: > > Second, the color of the trunk highway concerns me a bit. Any other > mapping company, online or not, uses the green line as a tollway. When I > initially started, I was makring highways as trunks, only to see most of the > region covered

Re: [Talk-us] Road classification

2008-12-17 Thread Jason Straub
I would be for this setup. I would mention a few things in passing. And I'm sure these have been mentioned, but I would jus tlike to mention them. First, I like the images on how much each highway it used. Trunk highways is not a used term in the US, except for Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Michi

Re: [Talk-us] Road classification

2008-12-17 Thread Joseph Scanlan
Greetings, I would also be happy to tag rural US 95 and US 93 as highway=primary. How close are we to having a consensus? -- - Joseph Scanlan http://www.qsl.net/n7xsd +1-702-455-3679

Re: [Talk-us] Road classification

2008-12-17 Thread Alan Brown
I'm talking more the Alaska highway, or US 50 through rural Nevada - not driveways. Or the Transcanadian Highway ("Follow the only road. Follow the only road" - South Park). Pick up any atlas; they'll show all sorts of minor roads in desert areas. Of course, being a private drive or barely p

Re: [Talk-us] Road classification

2008-12-17 Thread Karl Newman
On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 10:36 AM, Alan Brown wrote: > But - what percentage of local traffic or through traffic ends up on those > roads? It's relative importance that matter. If you need to go through an > area - what do you take? > > Same concept applied to city labelling - look at a globe so

Re: [Talk-us] Road classification

2008-12-17 Thread Alan Brown
But - what percentage of local traffic or through traffic ends up on those roads? It's relative importance that matter. If you need to go through an area - what do you take? Same concept applied to city labelling - look at a globe some time. It's not unusual to see "Thule, Greenland" labelle

Re: [Talk-us] Road classification

2008-12-17 Thread Karl Newman
On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 9:49 AM, Joseph Scanlan wrote: > On Tue, 16 Dec 2008, Alan Brown wrote: > > This is the way I like to think about it - if you're zoomed way out, a map >> of motorways and trunk roads alone is best: plenty of useful >> information, but not cluttered. >> > > This philosophy

Re: [Talk-us] Road classification

2008-12-17 Thread Joseph Scanlan
On Tue, 16 Dec 2008, Alan Brown wrote: This is the way I like to think about it - if you're zoomed way out, a map of motorways and trunk roads alone is best: plenty of useful information, but not cluttered. This philosophy helps justify what you'll find here in the desert south west. For ex

Re: [Talk-us] Road classification

2008-12-17 Thread mapboy
OJ,   It's usually state or local governments that decide that. In general you can cycle or hitch unless there are signs prohibiting it.   pete -- Original message from "OJ W" : -- > Do motorways in OSM also imply that it is prohibited to non-motorised > traffic? (in t