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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I think the National Highways (NH) and National
Highway Bypass should be marked either Trunk or Primary regardless of the
number of lanes in them. You can use the lane property to mark how many lanes
are there on the road and the reference property can be use to name the highway
as NH17 and the name can be used to identify the section of the highway. For
example on NH17 the name can be Managalore-Surthkal. </FONT><FONT
face=Arial size=2>I have been tagging NH17, NH47 and NH212 as
trunk.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>The expressways which are now limited in numbers
can be marked a motorway. </FONT><FONT face=Arial size=2>I am also opposed
to the tagging scheme based on road conditions. I</FONT><FONT face=Arial size=2>
am fine with any system that we come up for roads with in a city.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Regards<BR>Shajeer</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV style="font-color: black"><B>From:</B> <A title=thePlaneMad@gmail.com
href="mailto:thePlaneMad@gmail.com">PlaneMad</A> </DIV>
<DIV><B>Sent:</B> Monday, 13 October 2008 16:06</DIV>
<DIV><B>To:</B> <A title=talk-in@openstreetmap.org
href="mailto:talk-in@openstreetmap.org">talk-in@openstreetmap.org</A> </DIV>
<DIV><B>Subject:</B> [Talk-in] Time for consensus</DIV></DIV></DIV>
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<P>I have been planning to give the osm project some publicity here in chennai
and before i can do that, it is important that we agree on tagging standards for
the country to guide new mappers otherwise the whole project may go into
chaos.<BR></P>
<P>I request everyone to share their mapping experience and actively
participate in the discussions at <A
href="http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Talk:WikiProject_India">http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Talk:WikiProject_India</A>
so that we have some agreed standards that we can follow. Once this is done, i
can publicly start talking about the osm project in radio and newspapers.Also,
to guide newcomers i have added a getting started section to the project page <A
href="http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/WikiProject_India#Getting_started">http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/WikiProject_India#Getting_started</A></P>
<P>Please feel free to expand improve the project page. There just seems to be a
lot of clutter and information that is fragmented. Its about time we start
organising stuff.</P>
<P>-arun</P></DIV>
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