the wiki is the long-accepted approach: use highway=trunk for green signs - ie the primary (sorry) route network
On Mon, Apr 22, 2013 at 2:44 PM, David Fisher <djfishe...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > This is kind of a tagging question, but is UK-specific and pretty > straightforward so I thought I'd post it here -- apologies & happy to > re-post if felt inappropriate. > > I've noticed a couple of roads in the UK being downgraded in OSM from > "trunk" to "primary" on the basis that they are not "trunk" in the County > Council / DfT maintenance sense. They are, however, "green-sign" primary > routes and are clearly of greater importance than your average "white-sign" > route. The ones I've noticed are the A354 (Salisbury-Blandford) and A22 > (Greater London boundary to E Grinstead). > > Strictly speaking these changes are correct, as "trunk" in the UK implies > being run by the DfT rather than local councils (N.B. a large number of > former trunk routes have been devolved in the past 10 or 20 years). But > the OSM Wiki says to use the "trunk" tag for "primary A road (green > signs)", and this would certainly make more sense from the road-user > perspective. Is there a consensus on this? If not, might it be a good > idea to introduce a new tag signifying a UK "green-sign" route, and for > these to be rendered as such in Mapnik (i.e. in green, the same as "trunk" > routes)? > > Thanks, > > David. > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-GB mailing list > Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb > >
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