Whoa, What happened to the original topic of this thread? We were trying to come up with a system of determining whether a highway is classified or residential. Now we're talking about traffic density and traffic speed, and some sort of numerical classification scheme for motorways, etc.
What's going on? Signed, Confused in Thailand. (AlaskaDave) On Tue, Feb 26, 2019 at 12:28 PM Warin <61sundow...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 26/02/19 10:59, Sergio Manzi wrote: > > +1 here too, and a little bit of the same concerns expressed by Andy ( > https://xkcd.com/927/) > > BTW, in the Italian mailing list there is currently a thread discussing if > and how we should tag highways according to what are the official > categories in the Italian Traffic Code (*Codice della Strada*) are. > > There the concern is most about how to tag an official classification > (*something > that is implicit in the tag value in UK, if I'm not mistaken*) instead of > a "descriptive classification". > > Is ther a UK page that has these official classifications? They maybe of > use to fit others classifications to. > > But other concerns are emerging too (*at least in my head!*), like the > administrative responsibility under which a given road falls (*state, > region, province, municipality, private*) > > Use operator=* ??? > > and ad-hoc values as input for the router (*s**peed limits, traffic > density, etc.* > > > Rather than the density.. traffic speed could be more usefull? Example > traffic_speed=20 @ 6:00-19:00 Mon-Fri , traffic_speed=15 @ 9:00-17:00 > Sat-Sun (yes, busier on the weekends!) > *. *If no traffic_speed then routers use the max_speed.. > > * *OR* a comprehensive "preference"value *). > > Keep on going! > > Cheers, > > Sergio > > > > On 2019-02-25 22:10, Andy Townsend wrote: > > On 24/02/2019 14:25, djakk djakk wrote: > > > I think we should decorrelate the attributes of a road : its > administrative class, its importance in the road network (at least 5 > levels), its physical characteristics (motorway-like, two large lanes, > link=yes ...), possibly its traffic characteristics. > > So we can tag a secondary motorway or a primary road through a residential > area or an official motorway with pedestrians actually walking on it. > > So that we’ll unify osm road classification through the world (remember > the highway=trunk issue ;-)) > > > It's a noble aim, but unfortunately the first thing that springs to mind > is https://xkcd.com/927/ :) > > However, some of the stuff on > https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/User:Djakk/new_tagging_scheme_for_roads > I definitely agree with, and in some cases actually do do myself - like > trying to capture the physical characteristics wherever relevant. > > Best Regards, > > Andy > > > _______________________________________________ > Tagging mailing list > Tagging@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging > > > > _______________________________________________ > Tagging mailing > listTagging@openstreetmap.orghttps://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging > > > _______________________________________________ > Tagging mailing list > Tagging@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging > -- Dave Swarthout Homer, Alaska Chiang Mai, Thailand Travel Blog at http://dswarthout.blogspot.com
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