[Tagging] Highway classification in Antarctica

[Fernando Trebien]

I also think that such changes also imply corrections to the following
section regarding how importance is to be assessed by mappers:

https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:highway#Assumptions

Particularly this sentence:

"In a region with poor infrastructure, a road of highest importance,
forming the main road network there, should be highway=trunk,
regardless of being a high-quality wide asphalt road or a low-quality
narrow track worse than highway=service in other regions."

The consensus here seems not aligned with this. This section also
references the following proposal:

https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposal:Highway_key_voting_importance

Whose summary says:

"the general definition of highway=* should be changed to importance
for the road grid (hierarchical position in the interconnecting
network) instead of physical attributes"

What is missing is a statement about whether one starts judging such
networks by importance from the top (trunk downwards) or from the
bottom (tertiary upwards).

On Thu, 25 Apr 2024 at 10:50, Fernando Trebien
<fernando.trebien at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Thu, 25 Apr 2024 at 10:40, Mateusz Konieczny via Tagging
> <tagging at openstreetmap.org> wrote:
> > BTW, I think that at this point
> > https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Antarctica/Tagging#Roads_and_routes
> > section should be removed.
>
> I think it would be better to adjust it to the emerging consensus, but
> the discussion started yesterday.
>
> --
> Fernando Trebien



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Fernando Trebien