Kate Chapman wrote: > I'm not sure why that makes sense. Saying to people "Okay we know you > call these types of roads national government roads, well in OSM we > call them primary. So let's create a completely new vocabulary in > your country that nobody will remember."
There isn't only one possible way to categorize roads. There may be an administrative classification, but you could also categorize them by importance or whatever other metric you can think of. >From my experience in Germany, we do not necessarily choose the highway value based on the administrative classification, but ultimately based on the significance of that road in the road network. Usually, a driver wants to find the road that is the most relevant connection between two places, rather than learn which administrative entity pays for the maintenance of the road. With the German road numbering scheme, the administrative classification is also already defined by the ref=* tag. So choosing the highway value based on the administrative classification would duplicate that information. Why is this relevant for translations? Well, the translation should match the classification that is supposed to be represented by highway values. If a translation conflicts with local interpretation of these values, it will create confusion. Tobias _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
