[talk-au] secondary_link

[Stuart Robinson]

Links are by default oneway, I think that's what the other person is getting
at.

stuart.

On Sun, Mar 9, 2008 at 5:57 PM, Jack Burton <jack at saosce.com.au> wrote:

> Hello all.
>
> A few days ago, I noticed a fair number of small ways in Adelaide's
> suburbs tagged as highway=secondary_link.
>
> There's no reference to secondary_link in Map Features, Australian Roads
> Tagging, or in any proposed feature on the wiki.
>
> So I assumed this was just an error, and changed them to
> highway=secondary so that all renderers would display them properly.
>
> Last night I noticed that a lot of them had been changed back to
> highway=secondary_link and about half of those were tagged additionally
> with note='LEAVE IT A secondary_link OR ENTER ALL THE OTHER DETAILS'.
>
> So I searched a little deeper in the wiki and found only two references
> anywhere to highway=secondary_link, both in German and both suggesting
> that secondary_link was not a valid value for the highway tag (at least
> I think that's what they were suggesting -- my German is a little
> rusty).
>
> I'd like to change these back to highway=secondary again (as I have done
> already for those not tagged with the note), but first want to make sure
> I'm not doing the wrong thing, so thought I'd ask the list.
>
> The alternative suggestion in the note ("enter all the other details")
> doesn't seem to make much sense for these ways. The ways in question are
> all short two node links between the sides of dual-carriageway roads
> where right turns to/from lesser (i.e. tertiary, residential,
> unclassified or service) roads are allowed. It doesn't seem to make
> sense for these very short ways to have names or refs, and things like
> maxspeed would seem to be moot on such short ways. Tags like is_in or
> postal_code wouldn't make sense either, since there are no addresses on
> any of these ways. So I'm not sure what was meant by "all the other
> details".
>
> Can anyone shed some light on the most appropriate tags for these ways?
>
> Cheers,
>
>
> Jack.
>
>
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