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Thank you Timeo.<br>
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It seems the designation tag was meant for something else, and only
used for this purpose in the Philippines. Do you think this usage
would be beneficial in other countries?<br>
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Jens<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 13.04.2023 10:00, Timeo Gut wrote:<br>
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In the Philippines we use <a
href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:designation"
moz-do-not-send="true">designation</a> to record the legal
classification of public roads: <br>
designation=national_road/provincial_road/municipal_road/etc.<br>
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This directly indicates ownership and financial responsibility.
But maintenance might be delegated to another authority, e.g.
national roads are maintained by the provincial engineering
offices.<br>
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If responsibility areas of public works offices are identical to
administrative boundaries then a combination of designation
tagging and spatial queries could be used to locate the authority
in charge. <br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 2023-04-13 15:34, Jens Glad
Balchen via Tagging wrote:<br>
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cite="mid:7684d93a-1fd1-29ad-97b3-2e766cbe32b4@saint-etienne.no">Thanks
Martin. <br>
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The operator tag seems to be concerned with different, but
probably sometimes partially overlapping, information. It
doesn't seem suited to capture the type of road authority. <br>
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Jens <br>
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On 13.04.2023 09:28, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote: <br>
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sent from a phone <br>
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<blockquote type="cite">On 13 Apr 2023, at 09:04, Jens Glad
Balchen via Tagging <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E"
href="mailto:tagging@openstreetmap.org"
moz-do-not-send="true"><tagging@openstreetmap.org></a>
wrote: <br>
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I couldn't find an official way to capture this information
in OSM. <br>
Is there one? <br>
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you could use the operator tag (although it doesn’t relate to
ownership, it is about the entity in charge of maintenance,
and there could be several different entities on a specific
level, e.g. two entities in charge of national highways) <br>
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