[Talk-us] Highway tags - international equivalence

Hi all,I noticed some discussion on the talk-us list about how to define highways ... as when you get out of the city, it's often hard to know what type of road your on. ... a speed limit might say 1 thing, yet everyone drives faster. :-) Anyway, i added the Canada row, so it should be filled in

Re: [Talk-us] US Highway Classification (Was: directions of ways in MassGIS data)

There was a discussion on this list ("Road classification") a short while ago about the "Highway" tag that should be revisited. Someone posted a classification system back in December that made a lot of sense, and is more in sync with what I know commercial data providers.  Basically, it would be t

Re: [Talk-us] US Highway Classification (Was: directions of ways in MassGIS data)

What I've tended to do in my part of Texas is: Motorway - two or more consecutive intersections with grade separation and no driveways, or any interstate (some very rural locations do have the occasional turn off directly from the main travel lanes) Trunk - US highways without any other reason to

Re: [Talk-us] US Highway Classification (Was: directions of ways in MassGIS data)

We need a detailed road classification chart on the US wiki page to straighten all of this out [?]! Maybe I'll find the time to get working on that one of these days... I think I'm also having trouble making the OSM road classification system do everything I want it to. "the consensus is that th