-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 04/11/15 13:31, Andy Townsend wrote: > On 04/11/2015 12:54, James Tait wrote: >> ... I stumbled upon a changeset[1] that highlighted questions >> I already had about the tagging of roads in Mickleover. > > I'd tend to agree that Mickleover's "over-tertiarised" (and it's not the only place).
Glad it's not just me. ;) > It might be something to raise at the next East Mids pub meetup (which will > probably be in Derby in mid-November). I keep trying to pluck up the courage to come along to one.... > Something that I've done elsewhere where people have gone a bit mad with > tertiaries is to also map the road width; that way renderers can choose to use that if they want (3). That sounds workable for custom renders, but how well does it play with the default style? What about routing? > >> ... >> If I were to follow the guidelines in that changeset, > > (which was [0] below) > >> Uttoxeter Road >> (B5020) would be a tertiary road, and Etwall Road would be >> unclassified. I don't know which roads are maintained by the Highways >> Agency, but my gut says that the A38 would be a trunk road, and the A516 >> might be primary. > > No - the "rules" for trunk, primary and secondary are as spelt out by Tom Hughes, and have worked well. There are minor exceptions where the official classification hasn't caught up (e.g. something that's "officially" an A road that you can't drive down most of the time) but let's try not to make things more complicated than they need to be. > > Cheers, > > Andy (SomeoneElse) Brilliant, thanks Andy and Tom for the excellent clarification. I've not got back to the road network yet - I'm mostly concentrating on buildings at the moment - but at least for the higher levels I'll be able to continue as I was when I do get back to it. In the meantime, I'll watch the discussion about tertiary/residential/unclassified and let it percolate. Thanks folks! JT > >> [0] http://www.openstreetmap.org/way/26773899 >> [1] https://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/25091307 >> > (3) https://github.com/SomeoneElseOSM/SomeoneElse-style/blob/master/style.lua#L232 > - -- - ---------------------------------------+-------------------------------- James Tait, BSc | xmpp:jayte...@wyrddreams.org Programmer and Free Software advocate | Tel: +44 (0)870 490 2407 - ---------------------------------------+-------------------------------- -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 iEYEARECAAYFAlY6lkgACgkQyDo4xMNTLiYxSwCfXMd84lc2FLq3My3+u+mcUR4O 1jwAoNFFowlM5rL22YzgN0afhWOGYWP+ =5lkj -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb
