Good luck with that! Mvg Peter Elderson
> Op 10 aug. 2019 om 11:59 heeft Julien djakk <djakk.geograp...@gmail.com> het > volgende geschreven: > > Hello ! > > I've been thinking about this for a long time. > > Classifying roads should be the same all over the world ! :O > > The highway tag shuffles administration grade (in England for example > or for motorways), physical characteristics / abutters (example : > residential, motorway), access, and importance (commuting and > long-distance trip). I think the highway tag should be split into > those 5 features : admin_level, abutters, access, commute_importance > and long_distance_importance (by experience, there should be 6 levels > for importance, from the cul-de-sac road to the main artery). > > Importance tags could also apply to bicycle path and footways :D > > > Julien "djakk" > > Le sam. 10 août 2019 à 10:27, Joseph Eisenberg > <joseph.eisenb...@gmail.com> a écrit : >> >> We recently discussed the confusion about unclassified vs residential >> recently, but a more significant issue is that different countries and >> regions have a wide variety of practices about assigning the major >> highway classes, especially trunk and primary. >> >> In some countries, including parts of Europe and parts of the USA, >> highway=trunk is reserved for "expressways" or "motorroads" with >> certain physical characteristics. However, in England where the tag >> originated, highway=trunk is used for the main, non-motorway highways >> in the country. As can be seen by glancing at the rendering of >> England, these highway=trunk connect just about every place=town in >> England: https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=6/53.021/-1.033 >> >> This means that highway=primary and highway=secondary is used for most >> other paved roads with one lane in each direction. Many place=villages >> in England are connected to a highway=primary and the rest have a >> highway=secondary. And most hamlets are on a highway=tertiary which >> connects to larger villages or a town. >> >> This leaves highway=unclassified for very minor roads, often too >> narrow for 2 wide vehicles to pass each other, connecting isolated >> dwellings and farms. This is how they are like residential roads, in >> the English system. >> >> I would like to adapt this system to Indonesia, where the government >> has not yet classified most roads below the National level, but the >> "Jalan Nasional" class of major highways has already been decided to >> be mapped as highway=trunk. >> >> See https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Indonesian_Tagging_Guidelines#Roads >> for an attempt. >> >> The idea is that one can determine the classification of highway based >> on what size of settlements it connects: >> >> trunk - connects cities to cities ("National Roads") >> primary - connects a town to a city or another town >> secondary - connects a village to a town/city or another village >> tertiary - connects a hamlet to a village/town or another hamlet >> unclassified - connect farms / isolated dwellings to a hamlet/vilage >> or another farm. >> >> This system is internally consistent and works well for rendering, as >> well as for routing. >> >> Thoughts? >> - Joseph >> (I wish I could review this with other Indonesian mappers, but we >> don't have an active forum or mailing list) >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Tagging mailing list >> Tagging@openstreetmap.org >> https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging > > _______________________________________________ > Tagging mailing list > Tagging@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging