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

[Paul Johnson]

David ``Smith'' wrote:

> 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.

No, it's not.

> 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.

Actually, it was promoted to secondary due to the fact that the whole
thing is a major enough road that it needed to be visually distinguished
from more minor city ways and properly reflect it's status as an
important connection between 99E, 22 and 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.)

It's a major commercial thoroughfare and the only easy connection
between 99E, 22 and 213 (adding I5 to the equation usually only benefits
you during the hours the anticongestion zone is in effect).