<div dir="ltr">Im not so sure tagging the road according to its condition is the best way to go. i feel its better if we tag it based on importance. there is a reason why national highways are designated so, because of its importance in connectivity. There is a minimum construction standard for every nh unlike fore state highways. a two lane nh would be better maintained and have signages that are superior to a four lane sh. Also, roads are getting upgraded all across the country as we speak and it would be really difficult to accurately tag it if we used such an approach.<br>
<br>I am for tagging based on its official designation as nh or sh rather than its width because there is no way to verify the current width of any road in the country. Another point is that at minimum zoom only motorways and trunk highways are rendered. tagging an important 2 lane nh as primary would make it invisible when at country level zoom.<br>
<br>As far as urban areas go, i have found that we can make the map more usable by using the different tags to indicate the level of public transport service as this is a direct indication of its importance. currently, i have been using this approach for the city of chennai, and you get a very different map than what we are used to seeing everywhere else. This map can be used to check the accesibility of a location to the mtc bus services. also such bus route roads have better maintainance by the corporation of chennai.<br>
<br>-arun<br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Aug 5, 2008 at 7:54 PM, Shajeer Mohammed <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:shajeer@hotmail.com">shajeer@hotmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
One pitfall we would have is looking at the map; one highway would contain<br>
all three colors!. Also I would suggest that we use this differentiation<br>
only for national highways, and stick to primary and secondary road type for<br>
all roads that are with in the city. For example AnnaSalai in Chennai or MG<br>
Road in Bangalore even though are four lane, should be termed as probably<br>
secondary.<br>
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Shajeer<br>
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<div class="Ih2E3d">From: "Kenneth Gonsalves" <<a href="mailto:lawgon@au-kbc.org">lawgon@au-kbc.org</a>><br>
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> On 04-Aug-08, at 8:01 PM, Mikel Maron wrote:<br>
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>> You might be right here .. the classifications used in the UK/<br>
>> Europe may not consistently correspond to actual road conditions in<br>
>> India.<br>
>> And in practice, these road classifications aren't strictly applied<br>
>> elsewhere .. sometimes it's a matter of judgement.<br>
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> my formal proposal here:<br>
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