[talk-au] Highway Tagging

[Brent Easton]

I have gone ahead and updated the Australian Tagging guidelines.

Mainly changes to the Rural roads guide, making the guidelines a bit clearer and adding service and unclassified.

Changed 'Metropolitan Areas' to 'Built-up Areas' and added a couple of comments about use in Rural towns and cities. Also added tertiary roads as 'Minor through routes in the local area' and added service roads.

Cheers,
Brent.

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On 30/07/2007 at 6:20 AM Brendan P  wrote:

>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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Brent Easton                       
Analyst/Programmer                               
University of Western Sydney                                   
Email: b.easton at uws.edu.au