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<div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>May 5, 2021, 17:22 by baloo@ursamundi.org:<br></div><blockquote class="tutanota_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid #93A3B8; padding-left: 10px; margin-left: 5px;"><div>On Tue, May 4, 2021 at 10:31 PM Bradley White <theangrytomato@gmail.com> wrote:<br></div><blockquote><div>Here are some counterpoints as to why I'm not completely on board with<br></div><div>"importance" tagging yet:<br></div><div><br></div><div>The issue of floating "trunk" segments on the main slippy map is<br></div><div>awful, agreed.<br></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Aesthetics aside, such floating chunks does reflect the ground truth.<br></div><div>It's not OSM's fault that highway departments, especially in rural<br></div><div>parts of the country, prefer grand islands of expressway to nowhere.<br></div><div>We just document it.<br></div></blockquote><div>It depends whether highway=* tag is supposed to describe road<br></div><div>function/importance or be summary of physical characteristics.<br></div><div><br></div><div>AFAIK highway=* is at least supposed to be description of road<br></div><div>function/importance - so generally should not change between<br></div><div>settlements on every change in road quality<br></div><div><a href="https://www.openstreetmap.org/?mlat=34.2595&mlon=-95.8543#map=10/34.2595/-95.8543&layers=N">https://www.openstreetmap.org/?mlat=34.2595&mlon=-95.8543#map=10/34.2595/-95.8543</a><br></div><div>(with possible exception for cases where only part of road are<br></div><div>of highway=motorway quality)<br></div><div><br></div><div>Note that there are lanes=*, surface=*, shoulder=* etc allowing<br></div><div>to describe exact physical characteristics already.<br></div><div><br></div><div>This tag are typically deliberately not used in rendering of national/global<br></div><div>road networks and it is fully intentional.<br></div> </body>
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