<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Jun 5, 2015, at 8:26 AM, pmailkeey . <<a href="mailto:pmailkeey@googlemail.com" class="">pmailkeey@googlemail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; display: inline !important;" class="">I'm not a fan at all of non-physical road descriptions like primary, tertiary etc.</span></div></blockquote></div><br class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Japan completely breaks OSM road descriptions, and uses the classifications above tertiary to match their governmental classification scheme - even when a “primary” road couldn’t otherwise meet the definition of a tertiary road if it didn’t have a “primary” government road shield from 1910. But it does make OSM consistent with existing Japanese mapping traditions. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Javbw</div></body></html>