<div class="gmail_quote">On Nov 22, 2007 4:31 AM, Andrew MacKinnon <<a href="mailto:andrewpmk@gmail.com">andrewpmk@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
What I feel would be the easiest thing to do for mappers would be to<br>create a new tag for the administrative classification (let's call it<br>designation). Then we could simply use the highway tag to make a<br>general classification of the road based on its appearance alone,
<br>perhaps based on one of the "Tagging samples" guides linked to from<br><<a href="http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Key:highway" target="_blank">http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Key:highway</a>
>. This would be<br>slightly subjective, but if we made the tagging samples fairly<br>detailed it should be reasonably objective. We could always add more<br>information (# of lanes, surface, speed limit, etc.) if we want to
<br>make more detailed maps.<br></blockquote></div><br>Could I suggest leaving the existing highway tag alone and not redefining it and making us have to re-tag every A and B road in the United Kingdom etc, and instead introducing 2 new tags?
<br><br>-- <br>Abi<br>