<div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 6:35 PM, Nathan Edgars II <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:neroute2@gmail.com">neroute2@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 9:47 AM, Ian Dees <<a href="mailto:ian.dees@gmail.com">ian.dees@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 8:33 AM, Nathan Edgars II <<a href="mailto:neroute2@gmail.com">neroute2@gmail.com</a>><br>
> wrote:<br>
>> > The problem is that the<br>
>> > European community has decided that the highway tags are shorthand for<br>
>> > physical qualities that usually only exist in Europe.<br>
>> I don't know about other countries, but in the UK the classification<br>
>> has nothing to do with physical qualities; it's tied to a consistent<br>
>> importance-based system assigned by the government.<br>
><br>
> I didn't say anything about the UK government classification system. I was<br>
> referring to the OSM highway tags (tertiary, secondary, primary, trunk,<br>
> etc.). Those terms are specific to the UK and are shorthand for physical<br>
> qualities that usually only exist in UK or Europe.<br>
<br>
Huh? Those highway classification tags (other than tertiary) are used<br>
for classifications that the UK government has made:<br>
*trunk: primary route network<br>
*primary: other A roads<br>
*secondary: B roads<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>So you agree with me.</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div class="im">><br>
>><br>
>> > The suggestion I made<br>
>> > in my first reply to this thread was that we use a separate tag to<br>
>> > describe<br>
</div>>> > what the US government calls the way. This would allow us to make an<br>
>> > interstate-only road map like the one that Google shows you or that you<br>
>> > can<br>
>> > obtain in paper from your state government.<br>
>><br>
>> And what do you do for all the not-so-major roads that the US<br>
>> government doesn't care about (anything not an Interstate or on the<br>
>> National Highway System)?<br>
><br>
> Those roads don't have a government classification, so they don't get a<br>
> "classification" (or whatever it should be called) tag.<br>
><br>
Have fun convincing anybody that anything not on the NHS is unclassified.<br>
</blockquote></div><div><br></div><div>They can still be tagged with other things, but they shouldn't be tagged with NHS tags.</div>