On Mon, Jul 26, 2010 at 11:54 PM, Nathan Edgars II <[email protected]>wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 26, 2010 at 11:10 PM, Ian Dees <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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. > > Are you responding to a different proposal? > No. The proposal linked here suggests that mappers tag roads classified by the government with certain highway= tags. My suggestion is that if we are going to tag roads based on government classification and not follow the highway tag guidelines on the wiki, then we should use a different tag name.
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