After reading the http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Australian_Tagging_Guidelines page, it strikes me that you are already redefining most of the values for the highway key. So why would you continue to refer to the http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Map_Features page. I guess that is because it is available in English. As Pieren already mentioned, in France we also use some values for slightly different things that the ones defined in the MapFeatures. We had to because after translation we don't always come up with something that we can relate to. Different cultures result in different features in cities or even in the countryside (think cattle grids in Scotland for example). So we had to really consider highway tag values to reflect how important a road is. For the motorway value, well we have the same type of roads but for most of the others, we had to slightly change the definition to fit our road network. There has been a lot of discussion on the talk-fr list but once we came to a consensus, it was easy to put in place because we have our own MapFeatures page. Probably you should have one also...
On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 11:26 PM, Martin Koppenhoefer <dieterdre...@gmail.com> wrote: > IMHO the highway-class is not about lines on the street, not even > about width, these are all relative and dependant on local habits. > It's about structuring your road-grid into different levels. From the > top-level to the smallest footpath. I think Martin really has a point here. If you tag the most important type of road in your country with highway=motorway and that I do the same in mine, at the end of the day even if physically the roads aren't the same they are still the most important in both countries. And I beleive that's what the highway tag is about. The are other tags to describe the physical attributes of a road or the administrative classification. Anyway the MapFeatures are probably still too UK centric, even though some effort as been made to make it more general. And I can how it's confusing people in countries where English is spoken but the road network is radically different from the UK. Renaud. _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk