<div dir="ltr">The change is usually on the order of single digit percent per year, making even a decade old estimate much more representative than "heavy". Seriously, "traffic=trunk" obviously means nothing if we cannot agree on what "highway=trunk" means.<br><br><br>Ok, look here: <a href="https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=16/50.3124/13.8720">https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=16/50.3124/13.8720</a><br>The highway=trunk section is a bypass built to motorway specification. It is not even a motorroad, because it is so short, but the change in the character of the road is immense - it goes from 2 lanes to 2+2 lanes with a median, gets wider borders, no pedestrians, cyclists or agricultural vehicles allowed... The fact that it is drawn as a trunk road hints at all these changes.<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 23 February 2018 at 23:18, Fernando Trebien <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:fernando.trebien@gmail.com" target="_blank">fernando.trebien@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Wouldn't the estimate change often? We usually don't like that in OSM. [1]<br>
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[1] <a href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Good_practice#Don.27t_map_temporary_events_and_temporary_features" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://wiki.openstreetmap.<wbr>org/wiki/Good_practice#Don.<wbr>27t_map_temporary_events_and_<wbr>temporary_features</a><br>
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On Fri, Feb 23, 2018 at 7:11 PM, Matej Lieskovský<br>
<<a href="mailto:lieskovsky.matej@gmail.com">lieskovsky.matej@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> A "traffic" tag sounds like a good idea, but I'd have two suggestions:<br>
> 1) Can we find a better name?<br>
> 2) Estimates are better than words. I can imagine what 5000 cars per day<br>
> look like, but what is considered heavy traffic in (for example) Brazil?<br>
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> I'm all for letting highway tag only worry about high-level stuff (footway,<br>
> cycleway, road, path...) and have a separate class tag for official<br>
> classification where needed.<br>
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> I've created this page: <a href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Highway_classes" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://wiki.openstreetmap.<wbr>org/wiki/Highway_classes</a><br>
> Feel free to add your region!<br>
><br>
> PS: +1 to Michael's point about not changing classifications in countries<br>
> with an official system.<br>
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> On 23 February 2018 at 23:06, Michael Andersen <<a href="mailto:osm@hjart.dk">osm@hjart.dk</a>> wrote:<br>
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>> On fredag den 23. februar <a href="tel:2018%2015.31.37" value="+12018153137">2018 15.31.37</a> CET Fernando Trebien wrote:<br>
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>> > Assuming the map is correctly classified in Europe, I'm seeing many<br>
>> > fragments of motorways and trunks all over the map. Is this an<br>
>> > artifact of local definitions? Or is it intentional and desirable?<br>
>><br>
>> The "fragments" of trunks you see in Denmark are intentional and<br>
>> desirable. We<br>
>> follow the official classifications. We will not be happy to see you<br>
>> change them.<br>
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