On Mon, Jul 26, 2010 at 5:35 PM, Kevin Atkinson <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:kevin@atkinson.dhs.org">kevin@atkinson.dhs.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
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Roadway classification in the United States is subjective, there is no getting around that fact. No amount of discussion is going to fix that. Guidelines which only focus on each road separably without considering the entire network will lead to inconsistent results. I have created a better set of guidelines at: <a href="http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/United_States_Roadway_Classification_Guidelines" target="_blank">http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/United_States_Roadway_Classification_Guidelines</a><br>
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Please look it over at let me know what you think.<br><br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I think that tagging using the highway=* tag should be done according to what is documented elsewhere on the wiki.</div><div><br>
</div><div>If we want to start tagging road classification (according to the US/state/local governments) then we should use a different tag. We already do this with route relations on US routes, interstates, and some county roads.</div>
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