On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 9:47 AM, Ian Dees <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 8:33 AM, Nathan Edgars II <[email protected]> > wrote: >> > The problem is that the >> > European community has decided that the highway tags are shorthand for >> > physical qualities that usually only exist in Europe. >> I don't know about other countries, but in the UK the classification >> has nothing to do with physical qualities; it's tied to a consistent >> importance-based system assigned by the government. > > I didn't say anything about the UK government classification system. I was > referring to the OSM highway tags (tertiary, secondary, primary, trunk, > etc.). Those terms are specific to the UK and are shorthand for physical > qualities that usually only exist in UK or Europe.
Huh? Those highway classification tags (other than tertiary) are used for classifications that the UK government has made: *trunk: primary route network *primary: other A roads *secondary: B roads > >> >> > The suggestion I made >> > in my first reply to this thread was that we use a separate tag to >> > describe >> > what the US government calls the way. This would allow us to make an >> > interstate-only road map like the one that Google shows you or that you >> > can >> > obtain in paper from your state government. >> >> And what do you do for all the not-so-major roads that the US >> government doesn't care about (anything not an Interstate or on the >> National Highway System)? > > Those roads don't have a government classification, so they don't get a > "classification" (or whatever it should be called) tag. > Have fun convincing anybody that anything not on the NHS is unclassified. _______________________________________________ Talk-us mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us
