On Mon, Jul 26, 2010 at 5:35 PM, Kevin Atkinson <[email protected]>wrote:
> > Roadway classification in the United States is subjective, there is no > getting around that fact. No amount of discussion is going to fix that. > Guidelines which only focus on each road separably without considering the > entire network will lead to inconsistent results. I have created a better > set of guidelines at: > http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/United_States_Roadway_Classification_Guidelines > > Please look it over at let me know what you think. > > I think that tagging using the highway=* tag should be done according to what is documented elsewhere on the wiki. If we want to start tagging road classification (according to the US/state/local governments) then we should use a different tag. We already do this with route relations on US routes, interstates, and some county roads.
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