2009/8/4 Liz <ed...@billiau.net>: > On Mon, 3 Aug 2009, Elena of Valhalla wrote: >> > So is it really a big change for Germany and Italy to >> > define the highway tag as the administrative classification of the road? >> As Martin already said, yes, it would be a big change, and it would >> become quite meaningless (I speak about Italy, don't know about >> Germany) >> >> At least in Italy, the law states that the importance of a road >> defines its administrative status, and this in turn decided who is >> going to maintain it: if it was like this it would be great for OSM. > > this makes a fascinating problem the organised germanic heirarchiacal system > vs the romantic italianate system
no, there is no versus, it is exactly the same issue in Germany and Italy, as Elena pointed out: we can't go by administrative classes, for similar reasons. To give you an example, look at the comunal road "K 9652". User:Tirkon posted this illustrated example of how this comunal road changes along it's way from unclassified to trunk - and keeps it's administrative classification (Kreisstraße - traditionally a tertiary road) all the way (it's all the "same" road): http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php?title=DE:Tag:highway%3Dtrunk#Beispiele > i believe that i map what i see on the ground that's what we all do - for certain things. Others, you can't see and you must collect the information by different means. E.g. you don't see administrative borders - but we agree that we want to have them in OSM. Do you see "importance" on the ground? I'm not sure, but you see it in the context. cheers, Martin _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
