[Tagging] works_as_highway=primary

[John Eldredge]

It makes sense to me to go more by physical attributes than the official 
primary/secondary/tertiary rating. Among other reasons, medium-term 
conditions such as construction projects may mean that the quickest route 
from point A to point B involves the use of a lower-rated roadway to bypass 
a choke point.

-- 
John F. Eldredge -- john at jfeldredge.com
"Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot 
drive out hate; only love can do that." -- Martin Luther King, Jr.



On July 29, 2015 8:24:23 AM Colin Smale <colin.smale at xs4all.nl> wrote:

> A better router might weight physical attributes such as lanes, surface and 
> effective speed more prominently than heuristics based on logical stuff 
> like administrative classifications and legal maximum speeds. Artificially 
> manipulating the tagging to influence the results of routing algorithms is 
> not the way to go - there is name for that... If the government say its 
> primary, then it's primary, unless you want to replace that with subjective 
> assessments.
>
> On 29 July 2015 15:08:33 CEST, Andrew Guertin <andrew.guertin at uvm.edu> wrote:
> >On 07/29/2015 07:11 AM, moltonel 3x Combo wrote:
> >> Routers can already use 'prefer primary to secondary' worldwide.
> >> Nowhere in the OSM world is secondary defined as better than primary.
> >> In any given area. a car router can confidently prefer 'primary'.
> >
> >Based on what John Willis has said about tagging in Japan, I don't
> >think
> >this is true.
> >
> > From what I understand from his previous posts to this and other OSM
> >mailing lists, the OSM tagging in Japan follows the official
> >classification, and often results in small windy roads through cities
> >that are historically important being marked as primary, while modern
> >bypass roads are marked as secondary or even lower.
> >
> >I think that this breaks a router's idea that primary is "better" than
> >secondary, and I think that this problem is exactly why people advocate
> >
> >for not following official classification.
> >
> >--Andrew
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