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<div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Apr 28, 2024, 02:56 by fernando.trebien@gmail.com:<br></div><blockquote class="tutanota_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid #93A3B8; padding-left: 10px; margin-left: 5px;"><div dir="auto">On Thu, 25 Apr 2024 at 14:46, Mateusz Konieczny via Tagging<br></div><div dir="auto"><tagging@openstreetmap.org> wrote:<br></div><blockquote><div dir="auto">If very big island has no roads at all except single small road between<br></div><div dir="auto">two houses it does not mean it is highway=trunk road.<br></div></blockquote><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">I agree, but note that the wiki in principle allows this distorted<br></div><div dir="auto">interpretation twice:<br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">"a road of highest importance, forming the main road network there,<br></div><div dir="auto">should be highway=trunk" [1]<br></div><div dir="auto">"highway=trunk: The most important roads in a country's system that<br></div><div dir="auto">aren't motorways." [2]<br></div></blockquote><div dir="auto">If there is region without road network (Antarctica, my balcony, Sealand,<br></div><div dir="auto">Mars, bottom of Atlantic Ocean etc - even if some road vehicles have <br></div><div dir="auto">some typical passaged) then it is not applicable as there is no road network there.<br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">At least that was intended meaning (I checked with person who added this<br></div><div dir="auto">text, which was me - see <a href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/w/index.php?title=Key:highway&diff=1211371&oldid=1184333" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/w/index.php?title=Key:highway&diff=1211371&oldid=1184333</a> )<br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Do you have a good idea how to make it more clear that such malformed<br></div><div dir="auto">meaning was not intended?<br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">(second note also may benefit from fix as the most important in <br></div><div dir="auto">Vatican is not highway=trunk - though again, maybe it can be avoided<br></div><div dir="auto">via "Vatican has no road network system").<br></div><div dir="auto">But confusion is not applicable to Antarctica as it is not a country, as<br></div><div dir="auto">far as I know.<br></div><blockquote class="tutanota_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid #93A3B8; padding-left: 10px; margin-left: 5px;"><div dir="auto">There is also some confusion in the wiki regarding highway=tertiary. It says:<br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">"highway=tertiary: The next most important roads in a country's<br></div><div dir="auto">system. (Often link smaller towns and villages)" [2]<br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">And:<br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">"Outside urban areas, tertiary roads are those with low to moderate<br></div><div dir="auto">traffic which link smaller settlements such as villages or hamlets."<br></div><div dir="auto">[3]<br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">So what is it that highway=tertiary links? Hamlets, villages, smaller<br></div><div dir="auto">towns? Any of those?<br></div></blockquote><div dir="auto">I guess it kind of depends on area? I would not expect thorough consistency<br></div><div dir="auto">across world and what is described as "hamlet" is probably not so consistent.<br></div><div dir="auto">Though making it more consistent would be nice (if anyone would start a <br></div><div dir="auto">separate thread it would be nice)<br></div><blockquote class="tutanota_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid #93A3B8; padding-left: 10px; margin-left: 5px;"><div dir="auto">[1] https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:highway#Assumptions<br></div><div dir="auto">[2] https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:highway#Highway<br></div><div dir="auto">[3] https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:highway%3Dtertiary<br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">--<br></div><div dir="auto">Fernando Trebien<br></div></blockquote><div dir="auto"><br></div> </body>
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