On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 1:03 PM, Mike N. <nice...@att.net> wrote:
> For 1 - seriously, you do. In the UK we don't have some roads tagged >> "A3400" >> and others tagged "A-3400" and others tagged "CNSE" (Chipping Norton >> Stratford Expressway, _obviously_): they're all tagged a la "A3400". Our >> roads are coherently classified according to the UK highway system, even >> though it might seem counterintuitive (we tag non-primary A roads as >> "highway=primary" - well, so what). As a result our map looks lovely. If >> you >> get your shit together than your map will look lovely too. >> > > First we even have to agree on how it *should* be in the US. There were > some arguments on one of the lists, but like everything else, I don't think > it's settled. Now that we have relations, etc, the single agreed-on style > can be applied later with a bot after we decide how they should be ref'd or > named in the relation. > > > Aside from labels, the main issue is what trunk/primary/secondary means in the US, as we're trying to shoehorn the US system into the British schema.
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