Brian, just to save you the trouble, the closest there is to a standard is the FHWA Highway Functional Classification System. There's a wiki page [1] and lengthy discussion about its pros and cons on this page if you want to wade through [2]. Definitely would be a new thread if you want to continue that discussion...
Brad [1] http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Highway_Functional_Classification_System <http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Highway_Functional_Classification_System> [2] http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Talk:United_States_roads_tagging On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 1:45 PM, Brian Wilson <br...@wildsong.biz> wrote: > > Personally I'd think a per-state consensus would already be quite good. > > Greece and Norway use different tagging schemes - so why would anyone be > "held back" if Texas uses something other than Alaska? > > Simply put, Greece and Norway are different countries. When I drive > across the border into California, we still use the same nomenclature > for roads. > > Having 50 committees to decide the naming is another way of saying "it > will never happen". > > When I was on the Bike/Ped committee in my town (not this one) the > traffic engineers referred to AASHTO for standards. (See > transportation.org.) My guess is they have standards for it already. > I'd start by finding out if that's true and then put their names into > the wiki as the starting point. Asking Portland Metro for help would > be a good idea, I will write to them directly in a moment but I am > pretty sure they read this list. > > I know looking at the Brit names in OSM that they don't work here, we > are "two countries separated by a common language." > > -- > Brian Wilson > Corvallis Oregon > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-us mailing list > Talk-us@openstreetmap.org > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us >
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