I truly find this proposal to be logical and well thought out. However, I think that there may be better ways to pursue these goals other than replacing the millions of ways on OSM tagged with the current schema. That said, I think there is room to add new tags that serves a similar purpose to what you describe.
Sincerely, Dominic On Sun, Mar 6, 2016 at 7:39 PM Dave Swarthout <daveswarth...@gmail.com> wrote: > You obviously did a lot of work in preparing your proposal and for that I > thank you Alberto. However, I'm afraid I have to agree with Tom. To > redefine the current highway tagging structure to the extent you suggest > would be next to impossible given the free-thinking nature of many mappers, > and any potential gains resulting from those changes would be minor > compared to the amount of effort they would require to implement. > > Some of the ideas you present will come up against stiff opposition as > well. For example, separating urban and rural roads and combining dual > carriageways are not ones I could support. > > Regards, > Dave > > On Mon, Mar 7, 2016 at 12:32 AM, Dominic Coletti <dcoletti.dc...@gmail.com > > wrote: > >> In the UK you can add a fourth one to that list - where Royal Mail think >> you are, for the purposes of addressing post. Doesn't correspond to any of >> the first three options. >> >> This is similar in some pats of the US. USPS addresses are completely >> different from the other three. >> >> On Sun, Mar 6, 2016 at 10:43 AM Colin Smale <colin.sm...@xs4all.nl> >> wrote: >> >>> In the UK you can add a fourth one to that list - where Royal Mail think >>> you are, for the purposes of addressing post. Doesn't correspond to any of >>> the first three options. >>> >>> On 2016-03-06 16:21, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote: >>> >>> >>> >>> sent from a phone >>> >>> Am 06.03.2016 um 11:28 schrieb moltonel <molto...@gmail.com>: >>> >>> City limits rarely match the limits of urban areas. On one extreme there >>> are multi-city agglomerations, on the other there are rural areas that are >>> inside cities, for example in France where there is no "no-city's land", >>> even the remotest countryside is part of a 'municipalité'. >>> >>> >>> >>> Actually there's 3 different kind of settlement: one for the law on >>> traffic (sign city limit), one political (the place and the area around >>> that it governs, municipalité) and the socio-geographical place, where >>> someone would say he's inside this place. >>> >>> The first one is the one that the OP has asked about I believe. >>> >>> Cheers, >>> Martin >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Tagging mailing list >>> Tagging@openstreetmap.org >>> https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Tagging mailing list >>> Tagging@openstreetmap.org >>> https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging >>> >> -- >> >> *C/CMSgt Dominic Coletti, CAP* >> Whiskey Flight Sergeant, Raleigh-Wake Composite Squadron >> (H) 919-463-9554 >> U.S. Air Force Auxiliary >> GoCivilAirPatrol.com <http://www.gocivilairpatrol.com/> >> <https://www.facebook.com/pages/Civil-Air-Patrol/107647995924164> >> <http://instagram.com/civil__air__patrol> >> <https://twitter.com/civilairpatrol> >> <https://www.flickr.com/photos/civilairpatrol/sets/> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Tagging mailing list >> Tagging@openstreetmap.org >> https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging >> >> > > > -- > Dave Swarthout > Homer, Alaska > Chiang Mai, Thailand > Travel Blog at http://dswarthout.blogspot.com > _______________________________________________ > Tagging mailing list > Tagging@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging > -- *C/CMSgt Dominic Coletti, CAP* Whiskey Flight Sergeant, Raleigh-Wake Composite Squadron (H) 919-463-9554 U.S. Air Force Auxiliary GoCivilAirPatrol.com <http://www.gocivilairpatrol.com/> <https://www.facebook.com/pages/Civil-Air-Patrol/107647995924164> <http://instagram.com/civil__air__patrol> <https://twitter.com/civilairpatrol> <https://www.flickr.com/photos/civilairpatrol/sets/>
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