Hi Denis, On Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 04:21:31PM +0200, Denis Chapligin wrote: > Due to newly approved proposal on highway importance russian community > is discussing new ways of highways tagging. We've agreed that > international roads like E-roads in Europe and A-roads in Asia should > be tagged as trunk, ignoring they actual physical conditions, like > number of lanes etc > > I would like to ask you to discuss this issue too, case we have at > least two E-roads (E77 and E28) coming from Lithuania to Russia, so it > will be at least strange, if we upgrade those roads to trunk locally, > in Kaliningrad region, but leave them as primary in Lithuania. > > You may join our discussion (russian only) at > http://forum.openstreetmap.org/viewtopic.php?id=5201 or ask me and i > will translate.
I am the original author of the current policy on road tagging in Lithuania (http://wiki.osm.org/wiki/Lithuania). Effectively, now trunk roads in Lithuania are non-motorway dual carriageway roads outside cities and important dual carriageway, fast traffic streets in cities. In principle I'm not opposed to marking E-roads as trunk. The arguments for in in Lithuania would be a more cohesive road network on low zoom levels. Another argument would be better harmonisation with Latvia and Belarus, as well as RF, where a similar policy is already in place for different reasons. However by and large Lithuania is looking towards the West :) If we look at Poland, they are very fair in tagging roads as trunk. Only fast, dual carriageway roads are marked so there. On the other hand, I see distinct value in having 'trunk' mean road condititions, rather than route importance. There is a distinct difference between simple, good quality 10 m wide roads such as A12/E77, fast, dual carriageway roads such as A1 between Vilnius and Kaunas (almost a motorway, but towing, bycicles allowed, stopping on the shoulder/emrgency lane is allowed, 100 km/h speed limit), and A1 between Kaunas and Klaipėda (restricted access, 130 km/h motorway). This distinction would be lost if we tagged all E-roads as trunk. > PS: i'll be in Vilnius next week, so we may discuss it with help of > Vilkmergės alus :) Ooops, too late :) Albertas _______________________________________________ Talk-lt mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-lt
