Hello, I'm ALMOST done importing the entirety of the 062N* area of Canvec data and wanted to pass along something I observed: http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=51.171&lon=-100.413&zoom=11&layers=M
The Canvec data had all the numbered roads listed as Primary. However, in the case of MB the general rule is 1-2 digit road numbers are "Provincial Trunk Highways" (ie primary), and 3 digit road numbers are "Provincial Roads" (ie secondary). Easy enough to fix. The one that I'm somewhat mixed on is the classification of all the minor roads in rural MB; Canvec has all the all the gray roads in the example link above listed as "tertiary". Given that I know these roads to be nothing more than dirt/gravel roads between farm properties I have downgraded the lot of them to highway=unclassified. Given the definition of unclassified roads, I felt this to be more appropriate (http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:highway%3Dunclassified): >From the wiki: In a rural context, these can be distinguished from tertiary roads by: 1 lack of (or lower) classification (if your country has a classification level for tertiary) 2 being narrow, such that vehicles must slow down to pass in opposite directions 3 being unpaved (in larger/poorer countries) 4 being more for access than for through-traffic between towns and villages 2,3, and 4 definitely apply for these roads. I figure this makes sense and just wanted to see if anyone else noticed this type of thing with the Canvec data in their areas. Tyler _______________________________________________ Talk-ca mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ca
