[Tagging] Tagging type of ownership of a road

[Graeme Fitzpatrick]

Thanks fellas, both fair comments!

Graeme


On Fri, 14 Apr 2023 at 13:15, Andrew Harvey <andrew.harvey4 at gmail.com>
wrote:

>
> On Fri, 14 Apr 2023 at 08:17, Graeme Fitzpatrick <graemefitz1 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> On Thu, 13 Apr 2023 at 20:48, Greg Troxel <gdt at lexort.com> wrote:
>>
>>>  (admin_level 4/6/8, normally).
>>>
>>
>> Would it work to add the admin_level= to the road to say which level of
>> Government owns it?
>>
>> Then I would think that a search should be able to say that this is an
>> AL2 highway in the country of Norway, so owned by the Norwegian Federal
>> Government; while this intersection is of an AL4 primary & an AL8 tertiary
>> road, therefore belonging to this "State" & this "City"?
>>
>
> I agree with using admin_level to tag which level of government
> owns/operates/maintains it however you still need to sometimes specify
> which entity it is, especially if the admin boundary runs down the middle
> of the road (sometimes it shared, sometimes there is an agreement between
> the two) and sometimes the operator will extend outside the boundary for
> example through to a bridge or intersection by agreement between the two
> parties.
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