[OSM-talk-be] wiki highway conventions

[Ben Laenen]

On Thursday 27 December 2012 18:15:05 Jo wrote:
> Now that we're on the subject of road classification, The northern part of
> the ring of Leuven has separate lanes for both directions, no traffic
> lights, on and off ramps like a motorway and the maximum speed is 90 km/h
> (a rare occurence these days in Flanders).
> The southern part has crossings with traffic lights and a speed limit of 50
> km/h, complete with a truckload of traffic cams to enforce it.
> 
> At some point I had tagged the northern part as trunk, since it's  far more
> interesting to go that way from east to west or west to east, so why
> wouldn't we visualise that on a rendered map? Somebody retagged the whole
> ring road as primary afterwards and I left it as such, since I didn't feel
> like starting an edit war. It still feels like a missed chance to be the
> better map though.

Doesn't the northern part of the ringway have cycle lanes on each side? So far 
the "definition" of trunk is a road for fast traffic that disallows 
pedestrians and cyclists.


To also reply to the next email: the original definition was about the 
motorroad sign, but that isn't really workable and it has changed into the 
definition above. There are roads with the sign that shouldn't be trunk and 
roads without the sign but which should really be trunk (these roads then have 
traffic signs that just prohibit pedestrians and cyclists (and mopeds, horse 
riders). Or the A12 between Antwerp and Brussels, I don't think the middle 
lane has any traffic signs at all on the parts where it isn't a motorway.

Ben