This looks like coding for the map rather than mapping what's on the ground. I understand that a highway's importance to an area is relative to other highways in the area. But that doesn't mean a two lane at-grade highway should be coded the same in one area as a four lane limited access highway in another. Or perhaps there should be another tag for the type of road as experienced on the ground vs a state or national scale map.
From: talk-us-boun...@openstreetmap.org [mailto:talk-us-boun...@openstreetmap.org] On Behalf Of Ian Dees Sent: Tuesday, July 27, 2010 6:09 AM To: Nathan Edgars II Cc: Kevin Atkinson; talk-us@openstreetmap.org Subject: Re: [Talk-us] United States Roadway Classification Guidelines On Mon, Jul 26, 2010 at 11:54 PM, Nathan Edgars II <nerou...@gmail.com<mailto:nerou...@gmail.com>> wrote: On Mon, Jul 26, 2010 at 11:10 PM, Ian Dees <ian.d...@gmail.com<mailto:ian.d...@gmail.com>> wrote: > On Mon, Jul 26, 2010 at 5:35 PM, Kevin Atkinson > <ke...@atkinson.dhs.org<mailto:ke...@atkinson.dhs.org>> > 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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