Re: [Talk-ca] Highway recoding

2016-01-28 Per discussione Ken Wuschke
Morning Daniel, First, I really appreciated your comprehensive email. It provided me with a lot of background on this topic. As to my level of employment within the Ministry of Transportation and Highways, I was on the operations end and dealt directly with the public. Through this I quickly

Re: [Talk-ca] Highway recoding

2016-01-27 Per discussione Ken Wuschke
I still lean towards function over design as how to define a trunk road. The present Tag: highway=trunk for high performance roads that don't meet the requirement for motorway actually is inclusive of the function of the highway. All that is required is further the definition to clarify this

Re: [Talk-ca] Highway recoding

2016-01-27 Per discussione Ken Wuschke
Hi Daniel, I just took a look at http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Highway:International_equivalence and the only difference between trunk and primary is the use of the *National Highway System - Core Routes*. I actually find that document to be more subjective then objective. As far I as I can

Re: [Talk-ca] Highway recoding

2016-01-26 Per discussione Ken Wuschke
But there's one point on showing a route as a trunk route that I think is important to considered. And this would be on a global level, not just for Canada. I use OSM on a Garmin Nuvi navigational system. If you are not familiar all of the OSM maps can be downloaded for free for use on GPS