No you must have misunderstood me - ... Glad we agree that "secondary" is a term best kept to refer to B roads, not A roads. For the rest I have conceded that my original proposal is outwith the consensus and withdrawn it. The confusion that has arisen over what I thought was an innocent suggestion does, however, still suggest to me that the map features wiki page could be clearer. I suspect it is a case that the long-established team knows what they mean by the words chosen but a relative newcomer to the wording finds it less clear, not knowing the history. As I am - hopefully - not the only newcomer to OSM perhaps a change to the wiki could still be considered - without attempting to change the working practice.
-----Original Message----- From: Tom Hughes [mailto:t...@compton.nu] Sent: 01 January 2009 16:03 To: Mike Harris Cc: talk@openstreetmap.org Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] Trunk and primary routes in the UK Mike Harris wrote: > I thought that I had backed off and cleared things up - sorry! Unfortunately > your message - for me at least - adds further to the confusion. Surely in the > UK "primary" roads (and trunk roads of course) are A roads and A roads are > primary roads - whether or not they are part of the "primary route network" > (as indicated by street sign colour). OSM has chosen to define its tagging > and rendering according to the "primary route network" (and street sign > colour) and I am no longer questioning this and have already apologised and > corrected back the few changes I had made. BUT ... A roads with white signs > are surely still primary roads (and should be tagged as such)? To call an A > road a "secondary" road adds enormously to the potential confusion as the > term "secondary" is surely reserved in legal, common and OSM parlance for B > roads? I don't know whether "secondary A road" is an official term or not, so don't treat that as having any significance. Maybe I misunderstood, but I read your message as saying that some roads which were not part of the primary route network have green signs, and as far as I know that is not true. That is basically what I was trying to say was wrong. Tom -- Tom Hughes (t...@compton.nu) http://www.compton.nu/ _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
