Tom Hughes wrote: > That doesn't follow - in the UK we have always (with very rare > exceptions like Oxford High Street) mapped secondary, primary > and trunk to the official status of the road.
It's slightly more nuanced than that - we have always mapped secondary, primary and trunk to the _observable_ official status of the road. Where a road isn't signposted with that status, we don't have a strong precedent. There is at least one such road which has been highway=tertiary since 2009. It is not signposted as the A*** on the ground - indeed, traffic for the A*** is expressly signed another way - but legally it is the A***. And no I'm not going to say where it is or some Sabristo[1] will come along and "fix" it. Philip's example is the same: I know the road he's talking about and it isn't signposted as the A****, it's signposted only for the little suburb along it. There is a very definite decision there on the part of the highways authority to not treat it as an A road. I don't have a simple answer, but I am tempted by the logic that where the highways authority has clearly made a decision not to signpost a road as (in OSM terms) secondary, primary or trunk, we should follow suit and tag something like highway=tertiary, designation=primary, ref=A***. cheers Richard [1] https://www.sabre-roads.org.uk/forum/ -- Sent from: http://gis.19327.n8.nabble.com/Great-Britain-f5372682.html _______________________________________________ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb
