So in my experience in Indonesia we have translated the presets literally. As you would with a translation I suppose=).
The question the repeatedly comes up in the training though is "is this the equivalent of X road-type in Indonesia." It seems like people have an okay idea of how the types map over here. So maybe this doesn't work in all countries, but this is a question we've gotten multiple times from multiple groups. I agree having to figure out who is paying for which road is a silly way to classify. But if the road classification matches to the actual utility of the road why not use it. -Kate On Thu, Dec 8, 2011 at 8:27 AM, Tobias Knerr <[email protected]> wrote: > Kate Chapman wrote: >> I'm not sure why that makes sense. Saying to people "Okay we know you >> call these types of roads national government roads, well in OSM we >> call them primary. So let's create a completely new vocabulary in >> your country that nobody will remember." > > There isn't only one possible way to categorize roads. There may be an > administrative classification, but you could also categorize them by > importance or whatever other metric you can think of. > > From my experience in Germany, we do not necessarily choose the highway > value based on the administrative classification, but ultimately based > on the significance of that road in the road network. > Usually, a driver wants to find the road that is the most relevant > connection between two places, rather than learn which administrative > entity pays for the maintenance of the road. With the German road > numbering scheme, the administrative classification is also already > defined by the ref=* tag. So choosing the highway value based on the > administrative classification would duplicate that information. > > Why is this relevant for translations? Well, the translation should > match the classification that is supposed to be represented by highway > values. If a translation conflicts with local interpretation of these > values, it will create confusion. > > Tobias > > _______________________________________________ > talk mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
