[talk-au] Highway Tagging

[Brendan P]

Hi Brent,

I support the use of tertiary roads in the city areas.  I haven't had the 
need to use one yet, however I'm sure it'll come up from time to time.  I 
guess it will come down to local knowledge too.

As for 'service' and 'unclassified' on the regional list, I'd imagine their 
non-listing is more a matter of there being less regional work being done 
initially.  I cannot see any mention of the on the discussion pages, so 
unless anyone had any trouble with them, whack them in.  I guess the biggest 
challenge is to remember to use the abutters tag to give them some context.

Cheers,

Brendanpuck




>From: "Brent Easton" <b.easton at exemail.com.au>
>Reply-To: b.easton at uws.edu.au
>To: "OSM Australian Talk List" <talk-au at openstreetmap.org>
>Subject: [talk-au] Highway Tagging
>Date: Sun, 29 Jul 2007 20:28:33 +1000
>
>Hi Guys,
>
>I would just like to go over the current Oz highway tagging guidelines. I'm 
>new, so have not been part of any previous discussions.
>
>One of the things I am interested in is creating sets of Garmin GPS maps 
>from OSM. I am thinking of a series of transparent maps of increasing 
>complexity. The 'Base' map would cover all of Australia, but only include 
>cities and basically motorway and trunk roads,
>
>You could then overlay this with smaller sections containing more roads, 
>eg. of the Sydney region, say containing Primary and secondary roads as 
>well.
>
>The most detailed level would include all the residential and unclassified 
>streets.
>
>I would like the Metropolitan roads list to include 'highway=tertiary' for 
>minor through roads and commonly used routes that are not really important 
>enough to be classed as secondary. In street directories, you often see 
>these marked in yellow. The 'abutters=residential' should be used on all 
>levels if necessary.
>
>I'm not sure if tertiary was left of the list for a reason, or if anyone is 
>using them?
>
>I'd also like to se 'highway=unclassified' added to the the Regional list 
>and 'highway=service' added to both withe examples of how you might use 
>them.
>
>My feeling is that the rating of roads really ought to be derived from 
>their function and importance to getting places, rather than the 
>size/state/maintained by etc. I would have the wording more like this:
>
>  Motorway = freeways - no brainer
>  Trunk = Major highways betwen capital and large cities
>  Primary = Main roads connecting more important population centres to each 
>other and the trunk network.
>  Secondary = The main roads connecting towns and villages, to each other 
>and the Primary network.
>  Tertiary = Other minor connecting and through roads
>  Service = unnamed access roads
>  unclassified = everything else
>
>The Metro verion is pretty good, except for the missing Tertiary.
>
>Thoughts?
>
>Cheers,
>Brent.
>
>
>____________________________________________________________
>Brent Easton
>Analyst/Programmer
>University of Western Sydney
>Email: b.easton at uws.edu.au
>
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