I agree. We need to map the various road classifications that already exist to the UK-specific vocabulary of the OSM highway tag.
Can we come up with a list of classifications that are currently used? My contribution (in order): - Interstate (the Interstate Highway System. Roads designated with the red-white-blue sign.) - United States Highway (Roads designated with white/black crest signs.) - State highway (state-specific numbered highway systems) - County roads (highway systems maintained by the county. Not common to all states.) - Residential roads What OSM tags should these roads map to? On Mon, Mar 3, 2008 at 10:23 PM, Bone Killian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 2008-03-03 at 19:55 -0600, Alex Mauer wrote: > > > > certainly a highway that meets the > > standards without being designated should be tagged as motorway, but as > > IMHO the only thing that qualifies a road as a motorway (in the US) is > the big red and blue signage identifying it as part of the interstate > highway system. > > If we tag things based on what it looks like (subjective) instead of > what it *is* (objective), the map will be a big mess of different > colors, without any consistency. > > I think we need an 'official' one-to-one mapping of tags to real > road-types. Maybe we should arrange some sort of a vote or something? > > > Bone > > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-us mailing list > Talk-us@openstreetmap.org > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/talk-us >
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