Re: [OSM-talk-be] wiki highway conventions

2012-12-28 Thread Johan C
2012/12/28 Ben Laenen benlae...@gmail.com And of course the wiki isn't exactly the best reference for it :-) The definition has been slowly adjusted on the mailing list for example, but we can't expect everyone to know the entire history of course... Too bad that useful information is more

Re: [OSM-talk-be] wiki highway conventions

2012-12-28 Thread Kevin Grossard
On 12/27/2012 23:22 PM, Glenn Plas wrote: On 12/27/2012 10:28 PM, Ben Laenen wrote: I also wanted to point at Tienen, but I see it has been recently changed by someone:http://osm.org/go/0EqQDB8 There's the N29 coming in from the north, and the N3/N29 should stay primary because there's no

Re: [OSM-talk-be] wiki highway conventions

2012-12-28 Thread Ben Laenen
On Friday 28 December 2012 10:06:49 Kevin Grossard wrote: I can understand the current classification but i prefere to use the classification of the government. Should i undo my changement and make the ring primary again? In that case it makes sense for me to upgrade the N223 to a primary road

Re: [OSM-talk-be] wiki highway conventions

2012-12-28 Thread Kevin Grossard
: [OSM-talk-be] wiki highway conventions Message-ID: 201212281200.13876.benlae...@gmail.com Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=iso-8859-15 On Friday 28 December 2012 10:06:49 Kevin Grossard wrote: I can understand the current classification but i prefere to use the classification

Re: [OSM-talk-be] wiki highway conventions

2012-12-27 Thread Kevin Grossard
On Thursday 27 December 2012 09:51:36 Kevin Grossard wrote: The wiki about the highway conventions distinguishes primairy, secondary and tertiairy roads using the N-numbers (although there are some question marks). Using the current conventions means using the old classification when the

Re: [OSM-talk-be] wiki highway conventions

2012-12-27 Thread Jo
Now that we're on the subject of road classification, The northern part of the ring of Leuven has separate lanes for both directions, no traffic lights, on and off ramps like a motorway and the maximum speed is 90 km/h (a rare occurence these days in Flanders). The southern part has crossings with

Re: [OSM-talk-be] wiki highway conventions

2012-12-27 Thread Johan C
Sign F9 = autoweg = trunk http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verkeersborden_in_Belgi%C3%AB_-_Serie_F:_Aanwijzingsborden Nice to read on this topic (sorry, it's in |Dutch): http://forum.openstreetmap.org/viewtopic.php?id=16232 http://forum.openstreetmap.org/viewtopic.php?id=16231 Cheers, Johan

Re: [OSM-talk-be] wiki highway conventions

2012-12-27 Thread Ben Laenen
On Thursday 27 December 2012 18:15:05 Jo wrote: Now that we're on the subject of road classification, The northern part of the ring of Leuven has separate lanes for both directions, no traffic lights, on and off ramps like a motorway and the maximum speed is 90 km/h (a rare occurence these

Re: [OSM-talk-be] wiki highway conventions

2012-12-27 Thread Glenn Plas
On 12/27/2012 11:03 AM, Ben Laenen wrote: On Thursday 27 December 2012 09:51:36 Kevin Grossard wrote: The wiki about the highway conventions distinguishes primairy, secondary and tertiairy roads using the N-numbers (although there are some question marks). Using the current conventions means

Re: [OSM-talk-be] wiki highway conventions

2012-12-27 Thread Ben Laenen
On Thursday 27 December 2012 22:05:17 Glenn Plas wrote: There is a simple rule I use, which is being used for certain in plenty of countries like UK and described in the OSM wiki. A primary road is a road that connects larger cities, so a N road between 2 small town would be secondary. I

Re: [OSM-talk-be] wiki highway conventions

2012-12-27 Thread Glenn Plas
On 12/27/2012 10:28 PM, Ben Laenen wrote: On Thursday 27 December 2012 22:05:17 Glenn Plas wrote: There is a simple rule I use, which is being used for certain in plenty of countries like UK and described in the OSM wiki. A primary road is a road that connects larger cities, so a N road

Re: [OSM-talk-be] wiki highway conventions

2012-12-27 Thread Ben Laenen
On Friday 28 December 2012 00:22:17 Glenn Plas wrote: But the general wiki (which is probably USA based if I'm not mistaking here) does say so: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:highway%3Dprimary There is not much room for interpretation except 'large' definition. It's not really any