[Tagging] Highway classification in Antarctica

[Mateusz Konieczny]

Apr 25, 2024, 16:16 by fernando.trebien at gmail.com:

> 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).
>
Antarctica has no real road network so missing top levels of road classes
is fine.

It is also missing roads between major large cities because it has no
major large cities.

If very big island has no roads at all except single small road between 
two houses it does not mean it is highway=trunk road.
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