<div dir="ltr"><div>The problem with<font size="+1"><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" size="-1"> frequency=XXX.XXX MHz is that many people known only the channels (e.g "9").<br></font></font></div><font size="+1"><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" size="-1">And it's not just frequency, it's encoding (GMRS/CB/etc)<br></font></font></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Mar 13, 2015 at 11:13 AM, Sam Dyck <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:samueldyck@gmail.com" target="_blank">samueldyck@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div><span class=""><div>>Could the road be given property tags;<br>
>tag haul_road=yes<br>
>frequency= as per <a href="http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:frequency" target="_blank">http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:frequency</a><br>
><br>
>?<br>
><br>
>or a single property tag;<br>
>frequency:haul_road= then use the same value system as key:frequency?<br>
>That may make the meaning clear? As duplexing is not used you don't need<br>
>to stipulate it.<br><br></div></span>Haul channel is just the term I've heard used, the "channel 9" I reference on the wiki is used on an actual road where it refers to <font size="+1"><a name="14c14586aa7518a8_fleetnet_zone-4_towers"></a><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" size="-1">154.635 MHz. I'm not sure about the term haul_road. Given the ambiguity of the term (Isn't every road with truck traffic a haul road?) would it make more sense to just use frequency=XXX.XXX MHz on any road where applicable? This would eleminate the need for new tags.<br><br></font></font></div></div>
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