[OSM-newbies] Secondary destination? (was: Re: School Campus)

[David ``Smith'']

On Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 2:26 AM, Andre Engels <andreengels at gmail.com> wrote:
>> http://osm.org/go/TdXV4A5_c-?layers=0B00FTF
>
> Looking at that outtake, I am bewildered at what I see on the west
> side: the road is tagged highway=secondary and access=destination.
> "highway=secondary" to me means "intended for through traffic",
> "access=destination" "not allowed for through traffic", so the two
> seem to be in direct contradiction of each other. Anyone care to
> explain?

Given the nature of that road, the "access=destination" is likely a mistake.

Given the overall network of secondary, tertiary, etcetera in the area
and a couple of visible ref tags, I'd estimate the "highway=secondary"
is entirely because of the original TIGER import: since a short
section of the road is also an Oregon state highway, the whole thing
got an Oregon state route designation in one of its name_x tags, and
therefore the whole thing was imported as "highway=secondary" and left
that way.  The whole length of that road should probably be demoted to
"highway=tertiary" except the part that is actually part of OR 213.
(I don't have local knowledge, but given the close proximity of that
road's entire length to a parallel motorway, I wouldn't think that
road serves as much more than a local collector.)

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