On Fri, 26 Dec 2008, James Ewen wrote: > Just looking at some attributes... > > The alleyway/lane is currently mapped as highway:service. I would > suggest that highway:service is more appropriate. Here's the > description for a sevice road: > > Generally for access to a building, motorway service station, beach, > campsite, industrial estate, business park, etc.. This is also > commonly used for access to parking and trash collection. Sometimes > called an alley, particularly in the US. > > Local/unknown is currently mapped to highway:service. This should > probably be highway:road. where that is described as: > > Road with an unknown classification. This tag should be used > temporarily until the road has been properly surveyed. Once it is > surveyed the highway tag should be changed to record the appropriate > classification.
Those sound reasonable to me. > > Rapid Transit is currently mapped to highway:bus_guideway. I'm > thinking railway:light_rail, at least in Edmonton, our rapid transit > system is a light rail transit system. Perhaps other areas of Canada > have a rubber tire based guided transit system. > Are Edmonton light rail routes tagged in the NRN as "Rapid Transit" or not counted as roads? I don't see anything in the BC dataset tagged with this class (I don't see anything in the BC dataset tagged with rapid transit) I don't think we can assume rapid transit is rail. Ottawa has a tire/bus based transit system with some dedicated bus only highways. I suspect this shows up elsewhere. The definition in the NRN feature spec says "A thoroughfare restricted to public transit buses". > In Alberta, we haven't tagged anything as highway:motorway. Our top > level tag is highway:trunk. This GeoBase/OSM project could work to > unify the tagging across the country! Yes unified tagging across the country is something we should be working towards. > > What about Freeway -> highway:motorway, Expressway -> highway:trunk, > Highway -> highway:primary? Your differentiating between "Expressway" and "Highway" as I read the NRN feature map "2 Expressway/Highway" is a single feature code. You could do Freeway=>highway:motorway Expressway/Highway => highway:primary or highway:trunk > > James > VE6SRV > Steve _______________________________________________ Talk-ca mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ca
