Hi, I agree that a reform is merited, and I think that most of your changes are sound.
One, I think, should be reworded: On 15 March 2010 09:03, Andrew McCarthy <[email protected]> wrote: > Proposed: > Local "L" roads whose importance for through traffic is quite > high. This can be the case both in urban and rural areas. The > choice of applying "tertiary" or "unclassified" in Ireland is > subjectively chosen by you, the mapper. I think the subjective element is overstated. I also think that the known subdivisions of local roads by importance can help us: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Local_Roads_in_Ireland#Local_Road_numbering My suggestion is that we reproduce the details of the 3 types of local road and suggest that the Local Primary and Local Tertiary roads be tagged as tertiary and unclassified respectively. For the local secondaries we could suggest one of two approaches: 1. Pick either tertiary or unclassified. Drawback is that I'm guessing we have insufficient information to help us judge now which to suggest. 2. Fall back to "mapper's choice" based on significance for through traffic. My stab at some text to describe this: All Irish roads not already classified as motorway, National road or Regional road are local roads. These roads are being progressively numbered according to the following scheme: L1000-L4999: Local Primary roads. In OSM we should tag these as highway=tertiary L5000-L8999: Local Secondary roads. We have insufficient information to make a firm tagging recommendation, so, for now, the mapper should choose between tertiary (used where the road has significance for through-traffic or is of a noticeably better standard than other roads nearby) and unclassified. L9000 upwards: Local Tertiary roads. Tag these as highway=unclassified. End of suggested text... If we reach the conclusion that the middle category of local roads can be tagged consistently with one of the options given we can easily use a bot to update road tags based on number. This approach (or a bot to report discrepancies) is something we might already consider for the other road grades. My wiki sanity check already does this, but I've so far failed to get it automated so it's always out of date. Dermot -- -------------------------------------- Iren sind menschlich _______________________________________________ Talk-ie mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ie
