The US Census Feature Class Code has descriptions of most types types of roads. This would at least tie it to an existing US standard.
http://www.census.gov/geo/www/tiger/appendxe.asc This designation exists in many OSM roads tagged with TIGER:CFCC. However most roads could definitely use some refinement. We could strip the TIGER from the tag to just cfcc then refine it from there. -----Original Message----- From: talk-us-boun...@openstreetmap.org [mailto:talk-us-boun...@openstreetmap.org] On Behalf Of Nathan Edgars II Sent: Monday, March 01, 2010 9:19 PM To: talk-us@openstreetmap.org Subject: [Talk-us] proposed first principles for United States road tagging I'm proposing a couple first principles to govern whatever we decide on for tagging. Please discuss here: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Talk:United_States_roads_tagging#Proposed_first_principles _______________________________________________ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us _______________________________________________ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us
