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From: Denis Chapligin <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [Talk-lt] Upgrading E-Roads to trunks To: Albertas Agejevas <[email protected]> Date: Tue, 1 Dec 2009 20:11:49 +0200 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=0015175cfbca17eecc0479aeb123 X-Spambayes-Classification: ham; 0.00 (6) Hi Albertas, 2009/11/23 Albertas Agejevas <[email protected]> > 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. > > As far as i know, Belarus and RF are already moving for a new marking policy and i've heard that there are some discussions about it in Polish community. > 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. > You're right! But there are lot of 'road condition tags' like 'surface','lanes','maxspeed' etc So with the new marking scheme every road could have a two independent property sets - road's physical conditions(tags mentioned above) and road importance for travellers (highway,ref,etc) Sounds reasonable, isn't it? > > PS: i'll be in Vilnius next week, so we may discuss it with help of > > Vilkmergės alus :) > > Ooops, too late :) > > I usually go to Vilnius every 3-4 monthes :-) ----- End forwarded message ----- _______________________________________________ Talk-lt mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-lt
