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In the Philippines we use <a href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:designation">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.
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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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<blockquote type="cite" cite="mid:7684d93a-1fd1-29ad-97b3-2e766cbe32b4@saint-etienne.no">Thanks
Martin.
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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.
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Jens
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On 13.04.2023 09:28, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote:
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sent from a phone
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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"><tagging@openstreetmap.org></a> wrote:
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I couldn't find an official way to capture this information in
OSM.
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Is there one?
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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)
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