On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 7:08 AM, Ian Dees <[email protected]> wrote: > 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. > Then you seem to have stopped reading before "refinement".
(By the way, I disagree with some of what's in "the next day", but that's not central to the proposed guidelines.) _______________________________________________ Talk-us mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us
