Olivier wrote: "In that case, the 50 between Gatineau and Lachute would in part be classified as motorway, parts as trunk?"
Hé, I actually map that segment! (in my other life). I initially tagged this segment as "motorway" because the "trunk" designation is not used in Québec. It is now tagged "trunk", as expected looking at the wiki - and I don't complaint here!-) because it seems right to me. This example matches the proposed wiki definition and the road classification in Canvec product. However, I can't confirm -for the moment- that the NHS (http://www.comt.ca/reports/NHS-Map-08.pdf) has been used in GeoBase/Canvec Roads classification. Regards, Daniel -----Original Message----- From: Olivier Hill [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: November 4, 2010 08:06 To: Bégin, Daniel Cc: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Talk-ca] Highway=trunk Bonjour Daniel, > I understand that initially the roads in Québec were tagged using this > classification... > http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Canada:Quebec > http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/EN:Canada:Quebec Funny the page says: "Trunk: ??? (should use National Highway Service roads);" > The concept of "trunk" is not really used in Québec, at least by French > people. So, local mapper won't use it. Absolutely. I just found out what NHS means actually. > The difference between trunk/motorway is based on carriageways (single/dual). So the wiki should say: motorway if dual, trunk if NHS and single carriageway? In that case, the 50 between Gatineau and Lachute would in part be classified as motorway, parts as trunk? [1] [1] http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=45.68321&lon=-74.05471&zoom=15&layers=M Best regards, Olivier -- http://www.olivierhill.ca/ _______________________________________________ Talk-ca mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ca
