[Tagging] Highway classification in Antarctica

[Martin Koppenhoefer]

Am Di., 30. Apr. 2024 um 01:47 Uhr schrieb Juan Pablo Tolosa Sanzana <
jptolosanzana at outlook.cl>:

> It has no sense to inflating classifications of every island in the word
> for being the most important road in respective island.
>
> If a neighbor garage is more quieter than the mine is not a justification
> to elevate road classification of one of them to compensate this difference.
>
> The highway=* tag is no made to use all classifications in a region
> delimited by you.
>
>


yes, agree to all of this, this is why I mentioned the length. A continent
is also not a region arbitrarily delimited by someone, especially if it is
completely surrounded by water, like antarctica.




> You need take account the function supplied by the road, the differences
> in the highway value are related to the function of the road.
>


The main criterion that we decided was "relative importance in the road
network". Function somehow has to do with it.
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