<html><head></head><body><div class="ydp70762536yahoo-style-wrap" style="font-family:verdana, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:13px;"><div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">Thanks Ralf</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">We should reference these two network wiki pages since they list the Network relations. Aslo, both are using the int_ref key.</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">I propose to keep the actual description : <br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><blockquote><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><span>A main road with a motorway-like layout with multiple lanes which is
restricted to motorised vehicles. Unlike motorways, trunk roads might
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</span><br></div></blockquote><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><span><br></span></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><span>Plus add exception for inter-regional highway networks as below :</span></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><span></span><br></div><blockquote><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">The convention is to also use the trunk classification for Major road networks across countries. with the following keys :<br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"> [highway=trunk][int_ref=road reference] ( ex. int_ref={<span><b> </b>TAH 1</span>, <span>SADC 10</span> } )<br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"> <span>See for Africa, </span>the [Trans-African highway](<a href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/WikiProject_Trans-African_Highway" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/WikiProject_Trans-African_Highway</a>) and the [<span>Southern African Development Community Regional Trunk Road Network (SADC RTRN)</span>](<a href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/SADC_Regional_Trunk_Road_Network" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/SADC_Regional_Trunk_Road_Network</a>)<br></div></blockquote><div class="ydp70762536signature"><span style="font-style:italic;color:rgb(0, 0, 191);font-weight:bold;"> <br><font style="background-color: inherit;" face="garamond, new york, times, serif">Pierre </font><br></span></div></div>
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Le lundi 25 janvier 2021 13 h 23 min 47 s UTC−5, Ralf Bernhardt <raabee@gmx.de> a écrit :
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<div dir="ltr">Hi Rafael,<br clear="none">
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we add a note adding exception for major road networks such
as the Inter-African highway project sponsored by UN,
Inter-African Bank and other regional partners. See <a shape="rect" href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/WikiProject_Trans-African_Highway" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/WikiProject_Trans-African_Highway</a></div>
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<div dir="ltr">Some infos also in <a shape="rect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trans-African_Highway_network" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trans-African_Highway_network</a><span style="font-style:italic;color:rgb(0, 0, 191);font-weight:bold;"></span>, where it says that this
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<div> Le lundi 25 janvier 2021 11 h 34 min 30 s UTC−5, Rafael
Avila Coya <a shape="rect" class="ydp49f16316yiv4911294349moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:ravilacoya@gmail.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><ravilacoya@gmail.com></a> a écrit : </div>
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So we should add that to the wikis, right? Otherwise users
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