Re: [Talk-ca] Highway recoding

2015-07-22 Thread Daniel Begin
Bonjour Paul, You actually highlight what makes me uncomfortable with the “strategic” approach applied in many part of Canada. You are concerned about the road network in BC; I am concerned about the network in QC. Until few months ago, there were no trunk here; they are now everywhere. IM

Re: [Talk-ca] Highway recoding

2015-07-22 Thread Paul Norman
On 7/22/2015 11:43 AM, Daniel Begin wrote: So far, I understand we have 2.5 votes for tagging trunk/motorway all roads identified as “core route” in document (a); 0.5 against (I am still torn between the two approaches!-) More comments would be appreciated Such an approach would be inconsis

Re: [Talk-ca] Highway recoding

2015-07-22 Thread Daniel Begin
Thank Tristan for your suggestions concerning the documentation. I agree that "there's so much that needs to be added to the map that I don't see tinkering with highway classifications as a priority". That is why clarifying definition is necessary since some users are currently tinkering with

Re: [Talk-ca] Highway recoding

2015-07-22 Thread Tristan Anderson
As I've always understood it, highway=trunk is used for core routes in document (a) that Daniel mentioned. It ignores routes marked as feeder and northern/remote. highway=primary is for each province's network of primary highways that aren't motorways or trunks. I don't exactly agree with the

Re: [Talk-ca] Highway recoding

2015-07-22 Thread J.P. Kirby
On 2015-07-22, at 10:39 AM, Daniel Begin wrote: > Since then, the document (a) is used by some contributors to recode primary > roads to trunk because it is cited in the Canadian tagging guideline (c). > IMHO, the problem is that this document (a) defines 3 Route Categories (Core, > Feeder, Nor

[Talk-ca] Highway recoding

2015-07-22 Thread Daniel Begin
I would like to have community's point of view on this topic. Recently I have seen most primary roads in my area being recoded as trunk by at least two users. They both refer to a governmental document (a) to justify their edits but I disagree with their interpretation. I have asked them to di