I decided to use my county and just go retag a bunch of roads. Most of the roads outside of the city that aren't highways were still highway=residential from the TIGER import. I found this map on the KDOT website (which I have permission to use as a source): http://www.ksdot.org/Assets/wwwksdotorg/bureaus/burTransPlan/maps/county-pdf/riley.PDF
I went through and upgraded all roads marked as "Minor collectors" and "Major collectors" from residential to tertiary. The result can best be seen at zoom level 12: http://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/1070359#map=12/39.4386/-96.7724 There are a few places where I diverged from the map a bit. For example the city of Riley has no collectors marked on the KDOT map but I still bumped the main road through it to highway=tertiary. There were a couple of places where I didn't really think an upgrade to tertiary was warranted but at the time I just went with it anyway. I may go back and do some tweaking. Overall I feel like this makes a reasonable road network. While editing, I could often (although not always) see a visual difference between the roads marked as collectors and those marked as "local roads" on the KDOT map so it kind of provided a secondary source to justify differing classifications. Thoughts? On Sun, Sep 6, 2015 at 3:44 PM, Toby Murray <toby.mur...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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
