Here is my list of traits.<br><br>Lane width.<br>Number of lanes in each direction.<br>Number of bidirectional lanes not controlled by signals.<br>Number of bidirectional lanes controlled by signals.<br>size of shoulder<br>
Center turn lane.<br>In lane parking.<br>Separate parallel parking. side of street<br>Separate diagonal parking. side of street<br>parking on shoulder<br>parking partially on shoulder<br>parking partially on sidewalk<br>access: ramps only, ramps and full intersections, intersections, t intersections (divided highway).<br>
divided by barrier<br>divided by median<br>divided by park<br>median width<br>pavement<br><br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, May 10, 2008 at 3:30 AM, Jeffrey Martin <<a href="mailto:dogshed@gmail.com">dogshed@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;">I was thinking about classifying roads in Korea. What criteria am I using when I put a road in a classification?<br>
<br>I'm starting to think that my support of the current use of the highway tag was misguided. Maybe we should<br>
be more specific.<br><br>I know some people say they don't want to be stringing tape measures across the road, but for most<br>countries I think there are only a handful of standard sizes for lanes and shoulders. Once you know the<br>
sizes for your country you can pretty much just eyeball it.<br><br>A name for each kind of road in a person's country could be set up as an editor feature. I select<br>"mountain road 2" from my list and it fills in the number of lanes, lane size, shoulder size, etc.<br>
for me.<br><br>Another option might be to have some kind of bot that fills in specific data based on country<br>specific highway tags.<br><br>I think the first option is probably better. Would it be too complex to base rendering on a combination<br>
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