On Fri, 2019-07-19 at 07:06 -0700, Richard Fairhurst wrote: > 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***. > Thank you for your comments Richard.
Using a designation tag in these cases would make a lot of sense. We should certainly not be undermining hard pressed local authorities who are doing their best to improve the quality of life of their residents. Phil (trigpoint) _______________________________________________ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb
