[OSM-talk-be] Conventions of primary/secondary/tertiary

[Luc Van den Troost]

> >    
> Interesting fact, I personally didn't know that a road lost its national 
> number if it was transferred towards the local govornments. In fact 
> weren't there cases in the past where a provincial road had a national 
> number? They barely exist nowadays since most provinces transferred them 
> to the 'gewest' or 'city'.
> 
I am quite shure all provincial roads in the Flemish area - perhaps in
the whole country - haven been transfered to the 'gewesten' exept in the
province of Antwerpen.

So the N18, Turnhout - Mol, partially also called 'provincieweg'

http://www.informationfreeway.org/?lat=51.288812031532885&lon=5.048497460122812&zoom=15&layers=B0000F000F

till at current stil is a provincial road, though it has a N number.

I do not think that a road looses it's national number because it is
transfered to the local autorities, but in most cases i guess the
decission to 'declassify' the road will be taken at the same time.

Vaguely i remember to have captured something that there is no such
thing as 'the official national roadnumber list of belgium'. It is just
an administrative 'draft' that is comonly used, not a 'law' or similar.

Guess I found it on an unofficial site about belgian roads, don't know
the url of it. Perhaps someone else knows a source of this?

Luc / Speedy








> Is there somewhere an official source from the government on which roads 
> still have an official number? Until now I've found this document: 
> http://www.wegeninfo.be/pdf/nummeringwegennet.pdf, but I believe its 
> kinda outdated.
> 
> On 18/08/2009 11:48, Luc Van den Troost wrote:
> 
> > A similar 'downscaling' has been done in Antwerpen, where for instance
> > the N1 becomes 'secondary' within the ringway. Guess this can be done in
> > most places that have a ringway to keep transit traffic out of
> > towncenter.
> >    
> True, similar case seems to exist in Aarschot where the N19/N10 cross 
> the city centre officially (if I'm not mistaken), while its probably 
> better to use the ring road.
> 
> Kind regards,
>