Re: [OSM-talk] When is a road a secondary road and when is it not?

2009-06-03 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Peter Miller wrote: Personally I want a structure for the town which tells a story about today's road use, rather than a dusty document in a council. I should inform routing engines to keep cars on major roads and cyclists off them. I don't dispute that this information would be valuable

Re: [Talk-GB] [OSM-talk] When is a road a secondary road and when is it not?

2009-06-03 Thread Peter Childs
2009/6/3 Richard Fairhurst rich...@systemed.net: Peter Miller wrote: Personally I want a structure for the town which tells a story about today's road use, rather than a dusty document in a council. I should inform routing engines to keep cars on major roads and cyclists off them. I don't

[OSM-talk] When is a road a secondary road and when is it not?

2009-06-02 Thread Peter Miller
I have used primary, secondary and tertiary to indicate relative traffic levels on roads in Ipswich rather than any strict classification. For example Landseer Road in Ipswich which is heavily with lorries, buses and commuters, so bad that the council have proposed building a new road to

Re: [OSM-talk] When is a road a secondary road and when is it not?

2009-06-02 Thread Andy Robinson (blackadder-lists)
Peter Miller wrote: Sent: 02 June 2009 5:31 PM To: Talk Openstreetmap Subject: [OSM-talk] When is a road a secondary road and when is it not? I have used primary, secondary and tertiary to indicate relative traffic levels on roads in Ipswich rather than any strict classification. For example

Re: [OSM-talk] When is a road a secondary road and when is it not?

2009-06-02 Thread Peter Childs
2009/6/2 Andy Robinson (blackadder-lists) ajrli...@googlemail.com: Peter Miller wrote: Sent: 02 June 2009 5:31 PM To: Talk Openstreetmap Subject: [OSM-talk] When is a road a secondary road and when is it not? I have used primary, secondary and tertiary to indicate relative traffic levels

Re: [OSM-talk] When is a road a secondary road and when is it not?

2009-06-02 Thread Richard Mann
I'd stick to the ABC classifications, except where a road is clearly over-classified (ie it's been bypassed, or blocked to through traffic). This can happen because of reluctance to declassify a road (which means less money to spend on maintaining it). British AB roads tend to be through roads

Re: [OSM-talk] When is a road a secondary road and when is it not?

2009-06-02 Thread Ed Loach
Both Primary and Trunk get green signs - but only the latter are maintained by The Highway's Agency (in England) Except in OSM, where Trunk means a primary road with a green side, and Primary means other A road. http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:highway#Values The Trunk value seems to

Re: [OSM-talk] When is a road a secondary road and when is it not?

2009-06-02 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
2009/6/2 Kev o...@kevswindells.eu: I can't always tell the difference when a Trunk and a Primary I know of Primary that could be retagged as Trunk as they are great big dual carriage ways with slip roads etc eg A289 to Hoo. Both Primary and Trunk get green signs - but only the latter are

Re: [OSM-talk] When is a road a secondary road and when is it not?

2009-06-02 Thread Peter Miller
On 2 Jun 2009, at 22:09, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote: 2009/6/2 Kev o...@kevswindells.eu: I can't always tell the difference when a Trunk and a Primary I know of Primary that could be retagged as Trunk as they are great big dual carriage ways with slip roads etc eg A289 to Hoo. Both