My general rule of thumb for highway tagging in rural Kansas is as follows. If I know nothing else about the road I start off with US highway = primary, Kansas highway = secondary and county roads = tertiary. Then adjust as needed.
For example. K-10 between Lawrence and Olathe [1] is controlled access, dual carriageway with a 70 MPH speed limit so I would probably bump it from secondary to trunk although I'm not sure I can come up with a reason why its current tag of motorway is wrong so... sure, I'm ok with that. Another exception: I downgraded US 24 to secondary and upgraded K-82 to primary between Leonardville and Riley [2] because that leg of US 24 through Leonardville has a lower speed limit, no shoulder whatsoever and is just generally a less maintained road than K-82. I suppose there is some degree of subjectivity to the "adjust as needed" step and things won't always match up with government opinion but I feel like the end result is a better representation of how the roads are actually built and maintained in the real world. Toby [1] http://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=13/38.9499/-95.0109 [2] http://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=13/39.3301/-96.8853 _______________________________________________ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us
