<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">On Fri, 20 Dec 2019 at 23:23, Graeme Fitzpatrick <<a href="mailto:graemefitz1@gmail.com">graemefitz1@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div>
Thanks, Paul - I don't disagree with a word you said, except maybe the importance of road construction? </div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>It's complicated, but you understand the difference between a motorway (or whatever</div><div>it is called where you are) and a dirt track.<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div><br></div><div>I mentioned "performance" & "importance" as they are the definitions used for highway=trunk </div><div><a href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:highway%3Dtrunk" target="_blank">https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:highway%3Dtrunk</a> </div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Doesn't mean those are universally applicalbe. Those are largely UK definitions.</div><div>They are basically routeing definitions. An A-road is a good way of getting from</div><div>A to B and a B-road is a worse way of doing it, Depending upon whether your</div><div>metric is shortest distance or best road surface or fastest speed if there is no</div><div>other traffic or,,, <br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div><span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px"></span><br></div><div>In some of the cases that I'm thinking of, these are the only roads, so yes, very important.</div><div> </div></div></div></blockquote><div>But that's still a routeing question. Yeah, it's the only way from A to B. But it's<br></div><div>still a dirt track, not a motorway. Use the standard query tool to ask how to</div><div>get from A to B and it will find it.<br></div><div> <br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div> we map dirt tracks between Hell's Bumhole and Arse-end Of Nowhere as motorways because they're the only way of getting from one place to the other? No, no, a <br></div></div></blockquote><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote">thousand times no.<div><br></div><div>& yes, yes, a thousand times yes, :-) I agree that they shouldn't be =motorways, BUT, they should be either =trunk or =primary, because, in this area, they are the main road, & so are of vital importance!</div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Nope, it's down to construction/legality. Your "vital/importance" distinction is mere</div><div>routeing. We in the UK have blurred the distinction between construction/legality</div><div>issues and routeing.</div><div><br></div><div>--</div><div>Paul</div><div><br></div></div></div>