Albert Pundt wrote: > This seems like a way overboard change. I've just received a changeset message back from someone else who had made a few unusual reclassifications, in this case highway=secondary for dirt roads in Nebraska. The user explained that they had been working from this wiki page:
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Highway_Functional_Classification_System which is a pretty misleading page for a newcomer to stumble upon, and doesn't accord with common practice. The page was created by one user in 2009 and has barely been touched since.[1] There are other very verbose pages: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/United_States_roads_tagging https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Talk:Highway_tag_usage and, of course, US information on international pages like https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Highway:International_equivalence . It would be really helpful if there were one single place where US common practice was explained, succinctly (not like the verbal diarrhoea[2] on the US Roads Tagging page) and unambiguously, and in a way that accords with international usage in OSM. As an auslander it's not my job to do it, but perhaps someone sensible on this list might like to? Richard [1] I've now added big messy warnings at the top of the page [2] it does actually include the phrase "according to the criteria heretofore described", which is marvellous -- View this message in context: http://gis.19327.n8.nabble.com/NJ-mass-road-demotions-tp5894719p5897823.html Sent from the USA mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us
