<div><br></div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">---------- Forwarded message ---------<br>From: <strong class="gmail_sendername" dir="auto">Jherome Miguel</strong> <span dir="auto"><<a href="mailto:jheromemiguel@gmail.com">jheromemiguel@gmail.com</a>></span><br>Date: Tue, May 18, 2021 at 11:38 AM<br>Subject: Re: [talk-ph] Your final say on the proposed road classification scheme<br>To: Eugene Alvin Villar <<a href="mailto:seav80@gmail.com">seav80@gmail.com</a>><br></div><br><br><div><div dir="auto">To me, I would say our expressways (HSH-1 standard ones like our existing expressways like NLEX, SLEX) is the nearest thing to the interstates or freeways in the U.S., being built to the same standards.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Our draft version is also more complete than OSM U.S.'s; we can get more ideas from their draft, but I think ours (which I based on Canadian tagging practice, which is somehow similar to U.S. practice) is fine already and is better adapted to the reality in the Philippines.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">I would also like to say that the living_street classification will no longer be used, following discussions elsewhere in the wiki about its use in some developing countries like ours. The original intent of the tag as documented in the wiki is to reflect a special kind of road classification usually found in various European countries. In addition, like with the use of track for unpaved minor roads, using living_street in the case of narrow urban roads with no sidewalks or even streets full of vendors and other obstructions before the 2019 road clearing raises concerns about mapping for the renderer. At last, it wasn't in our original classification scheme until it was added <i>without</i> discussion in 2015. Other tags can tell where a road is narrow or full of obstructions</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">I'm still working with the map of proposed reclassifications, trying to focus on the denser parts of the country like Metro Manila, CALABARZON and Metro Cebu. These regions really need some rationalization of its trunk and primary networks.<br></div></div><div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, May 18, 2021 at 1:45 AM Eugene Alvin Villar <<a href="mailto:seav80@gmail.com" target="_blank">seav80@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204)"><div dir="auto">The OSM US community is currently redrafting their highway classification system too. The draft wiki page is quite informative and it may be nice to align ourselves a bit too.<div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><a href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/United_States/Highway_classification" target="_blank">https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/United_States/Highway_classification</a><br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Of course there are major differences like we don't have the equivalent of the U.S. Interstate system and the U.S. is federally organized (there exists state routes) and population density is not as dense as the PH.</div></div></blockquote></div></div>
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