I assume that for certain long-distance routing, routers will prefer trunk roads.
I am also looking at this from the perspective of road importance and hierarchy (trunk, primary, secondary, tertiary, unclassified/residential) which is what most of the international OSM community have agreed on. Before Rally upgraded Quezon Avenue to trunk, this area has a lot of primary roads. A person not knowing the area cannot easily deduce that Quezon Avenue is a good choice if you want to go to northern Quezon City from the Sta. Mesa area. By upgrading this corridor to trunk, it's an indication that this road is more important for transport than E. Rodriguez Sr. Avenue or Roosevelt Avenue or other roads. On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 12:05 PM, maning sambale <emmanuel.samb...@gmail.com > wrote: > Pardon my ignorance, what is the benefit of re-classifying the roads > form primary to trunk? I don't mind doing this for my area, but I > need clear benefits before doing this. > > Does this provide better routing? > > On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 11:40 AM, Eugene Alvin Villar <sea...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 10:47 AM, Jim Morgan <j...@datalude.com> wrote: > >> > >> Eugene Alvin Villar wrote, On Sunday, 11 April, 2010 09:55 PM: > >> > That said, I was actually thinking of upgrading Espana-Quezon Avenue > to > >> > trunk. :-) > >> > > >> > What do other people think? > >> > >> My 2 centavos: Trunk roads are inter-city / town. Its also to do with > the > >> way people enter/exit the road. So ... NLEX should be a trunk: EDSA > should > >> be a primary road. > >> > >> Jim > > > > "the way people enter/exit the road" That sounds like highway=motorway. > And > > indeed, NLEX is highway=motorway because it's a high-speed road with > limited > > entry/exit points and usually has a toll. > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > talk-ph mailing list > > talk-ph@openstreetmap.org > > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ph > > > > > > > > -- > cheers, > maning > ------------------------------------------------------ > "Freedom is still the most radical idea of all" -N.Branden > wiki: http://esambale.wikispaces.com/ > blog: http://epsg4253.wordpress.com/ > ------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > talk-ph mailing list > talk-ph@openstreetmap.org > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ph > -- http://vaes9.codedgraphic.com
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