Yes it must be additional tags, so that existing tools that use openstreetmap do not get lost :)
I’ll try to write this on my wiki’s page in the next days ... Julien “djakk” Le lun. 25 févr. 2019 à 00:30, Martin Koppenhoefer <dieterdre...@gmail.com> a écrit : > > > sent from a phone > > > On 24. Feb 2019, at 22:20, Graeme Fitzpatrick <graemefi...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > > Replace the existing highway= types (=motorway; =primary etc) with > highway=1 to =5?, with 1 being the existing =motorway, down to 5 being all > the minor streets in a town. > > > rather than replacing the highway tags I would suggest to add tags for > properties which we want to describe and „can“ not yet. It is very hard to > often impossible to get back to individual properties from generalized > information. The highway class is such a generalized tag, the categories > summarize different properties of a road, focusing on the network. It > served us quite well, but it doesn’t provide answers for specific > legal/technical questions, like which is the road class according to local > planning authorities, or which is the network class in the national system. > These could be additional tags > > Cheers, Martin > _______________________________________________ > Tagging mailing list > Tagging@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging >
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