On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 8:10 PM, Ian Dees <[email protected]> wrote: > 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.
Nope. The UK government classifications have nothing to do with physical characteristics. >> >> > 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. Agreed. They can be tagged with highway=* tags, just not NHS=*. _______________________________________________ Talk-us mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us
