Re: [OSM-Talk-ZA] Tagging

2008-11-04 Thread Mark Williams
Hi Guys, Perhaps in certain cases the physical functionality of the road may need to have higher priority than its network classification (as in Nics' example). I think we all know of roads that are unclassified or secondary etc. that seem to be "major" routes! This is possibly driven by the ch

Re: [OSM-Talk-ZA] Tagging

2008-11-04 Thread Nic Roets
Hi Mark and Paul, I guess our standards are a bit open to interpretation, which is not necessarily a bad thing. It's relatively easy to get it right. It does not work for Rossouw Street M13 which carries a lot less traffic than Louis Botha M33. (And some idiot changed Hans Strydom in Pretoria to r

Re: [OSM-Talk-ZA] Tagging

2008-11-04 Thread Paul van Helden
Hi All, I'm have a similar question to Mark's. The words "trunk", "primary", "secondary" and "tertiary" implies a functional classification. A functionally classified road network should have each class (more-or-less) forming a closed network. The "motorway" class is not a functional classific