There is at least one trunk road (green signs) which has a B classification. A6 to M6 near Shap.
Phil (trigpoint) On Monday, 12 August 2019, Paul Allen wrote: > On Mon, 12 Aug 2019 at 15:56, Martin Koppenhoefer <dieterdre...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > > > > > > > If your country's government indicates with signs > > > that a road as a primary route then that is what it is. > > > > no government says „primary“ road, they might say „A road“, or > > „Bundesstraße“ but the latter is only telling that the Federal government > > of Germany is in charge of the maintenance (i.e. it is somehow deemed to be > > important, but it doesn’t say _how_ important it is, because importance > > varies among Bundesstraßen, and it is only generally more important than a > > Kreisstraße (local connection road), while in a specific case it may be > > less important than a specific Kreisstraße. > > > > There's always one country does it differently. :p I've just had a look > into it, and Germany is > rather messy. :( > > Here the national government decides on which roads are primary and which > are secondary. > Some primary roads are designated trunk roads and they are maintained by > national > government with all others being maintained at the county level. It's > possible somebody > could find an exceptional case and argue that a UK B-road ought to be > tagged as a > primary route, or an A-road be tagged as a secondary, but I doubt it. In a > few cases new > roads or motorways have resulted in former A-roads being given a new B > number by > the government itself. I'd hesitate to buck the system in the UK even if I > found a > very exceptional case. Especially as speed limits and lane counts could be > used > by routers to prefer a secondary route to a primary route in some > situations. > > A map that highlighted roads in a way that conflicted with signage would be > somewhat > confusing. Here we're used to the idea that a primary route is a better > choice than > a secondary route, all other things being equal. If you're planning a > journey you look > at the primary routes first and maybe refine it a little by diverting onto > secondary routes > for part of the journey (actually you'd look at motorways first). > > I’m all for recording these classes (we do it in ref in Germany and Italy), > > but they cannot be an argument in the individual case in favor of a > > specific osm highway class. > > > > In the case of Germany, I agree. In Germany it's not that simple. From > what I've read > the number of digits indicates how important the road is. Sort of. There > are exceptions. > :( > > -- > Paul > -- Sent from my Sailfish device _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging