[Tagging] What classification for a connecting link?

[Richard Mann]

Nathan - there's some form of setting in your email account that means
that every time you reply to a thread we see a new thread starting
(dropping the Re: prefix, maybe?). This makes it very hard to follow
the thread, as the emails get out of order.

On the specific example, in the UK these would be tertiarys: an
ordinary street that serves a "through" or within-city distribution
function. They'd have to be pretty dominated by the traffic
(effectively part of a gyratory) before they got tagged as
primary_link

On the general question of links, I think the wiki may be wrong, in
that the link between a primary and a trunk should probably be a
primary_link, not a trunk_link. This is most likely to avoid the
situation where you get an ugly join between ways.

However, there doesn't appear to be consensus even among mainstream UK
renderers (OS and A-Z are different), so I have limited hopes on
arriving at a universal consensus. I've adopted the OS convention
(everything to the lower level) locally, because it renders better. I
think I'll start a survey of what different map brands do on the wiki
page.

{Before you all shout, a link between a motorway and a trunk should be
a motorway_link; that's a special case for motorways, because
motorways are roads with special laws}

Richard

On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 10:27 AM, Andre Engels <andreengels at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 9:55 AM, Simone Saviolo
> <simone.saviolo at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Seeing the pictures, in fact, I wouldn't tag them as links either.
>> IMHO, they're not really links, they're just streets that happen to
>> offer a connection between the two main roads.
>
> I agree, _link does not seem to apply well to that type of street. My
> preferred solution would be to treat them as normal roads, but
> 'upgrade' them (from residential to secondary or something like that)
> to denote their importance for through-traffic.
>
>
> --
> André Engels, andreengels at gmail.com
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