[OHM] evolving road classifications & OHM

[Richard Welty]

[i previously posted this over in slack; not a lot of OHM activity
over there so i'm reposting it here]

i'm currently entering the route of the Long Island Motor Parkway
into OHM, both for its historic interest as an early improved roadway
(built 1908, operated as the LIMP until 1938) and because the first
3 years of operation included the Vanderbilt Cup Races which are
important to Ghost Tracks.

the LIMP brings up something i’d  not considered before - adapting the
OSM highway tagging system for historic mapping. for 1908, the LIMP was
an advanced road - all concrete, limited number of access points, wider
than most. because of that, i’ve temporarily tagged what i’ve entered as
trunk. but by the end of its life as a standalone entity it was
obsolete, and NYS declined to add it to the state parkway system because
it was so far behind the new roads that Robert Moses was building. at
best in 1938 it was secondary. the longest existing piece today is
a tertiary county route. so what do we want to do?

richard
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