[Tagging] Highway classification in Antarctica

[Mateusz Konieczny]

Apr 28, 2024, 02:56 by fernando.trebien at gmail.com:

> On Thu, 25 Apr 2024 at 14:46, Mateusz Konieczny via Tagging
> <tagging at openstreetmap.org> wrote:
>
>> 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.
>>
>
> I agree, but note that the wiki in principle allows this distorted
> interpretation twice:
>
> "a road of highest importance, forming the main road network there,
> should be highway=trunk" [1]
> "highway=trunk: The most important roads in a country's system that
> aren't motorways." [2]
>
If there is region without road network (Antarctica, my balcony, Sealand,
Mars, bottom of Atlantic Ocean etc - even if some road vehicles have 
some typical passaged) then it is not applicable as there is no road network there.

At least that was intended meaning (I checked with person who added this
text, which was me - see https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/w/index.php?title=Key:highway&diff=1211371&oldid=1184333 )

Do you have a good idea how to make it more clear that such malformed
meaning was not intended?

(second note also may benefit from fix as the most important in 
Vatican is not highway=trunk - though again, maybe it can be avoided
via "Vatican has no road network system").
But confusion is not applicable to Antarctica as it is not a country, as
far as I know.

> There is also some confusion in the wiki regarding highway=tertiary. It says:
>
> "highway=tertiary: The next most important roads in a country's
> system. (Often link smaller towns and villages)" [2]
>
> And:
>
> "Outside urban areas, tertiary roads are those with low to moderate
> traffic which link smaller settlements such as villages or hamlets."
> [3]
>
> So what is it that highway=tertiary links? Hamlets, villages, smaller
> towns? Any of those?
>
I guess it kind of depends on area? I would not expect thorough consistency
across world and what is described as "hamlet" is probably not so consistent.
Though making it more consistent would be nice (if anyone would start a 
separate thread it would be nice)

> [1] https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:highway#Assumptions
> [2] https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:highway#Highway
> [3] https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:highway%3Dtertiary
>
> --
> Fernando Trebien
>

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