<div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Jul 26, 2010 at 11:54 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;">
<div><div></div><div class="h5">On Mon, Jul 26, 2010 at 11:10 PM, Ian Dees <<a href="mailto:ian.dees@gmail.com">ian.dees@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> On Mon, Jul 26, 2010 at 5:35 PM, Kevin Atkinson <<a href="mailto:kevin@atkinson.dhs.org">kevin@atkinson.dhs.org</a>><br>
> wrote:<br>
>><br>
>> Roadway classification in the United States is subjective, there is no<br>
>> getting around that fact. No amount of discussion is going to fix that.<br>
>> Guidelines which only focus on each road separably without considering the<br>
>> entire network will lead to inconsistent results. I have created a better<br>
>> set of guidelines at:<br>
>> <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>
>><br>
>> Please look it over at let me know what you think.<br>
>><br>
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> I think that tagging using the highway=* tag should be done according to<br>
> what is documented elsewhere on the wiki.<br>
> If we want to start tagging road classification (according to the<br>
> US/state/local governments) then we should use a different tag. We already<br>
> do this with route relations on US routes, interstates, and some county<br>
> roads.<br>
<br>
</div></div>Are you responding to a different proposal?<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>No. The proposal linked here suggests that mappers tag roads classified by the government with certain highway= tags. My suggestion is that if we are going to tag roads based on government classification and not follow the highway tag guidelines on the wiki, then we should use a different tag name. </div>
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