On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 6:35 PM, Nathan Edgars II <[email protected]>wrote:
> 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 > So you agree with me. > > > >> > >> > 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. > They can still be tagged with other things, but they shouldn't be tagged with NHS tags.
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