[Talk-ca] Highway=trunk

[Bégin, Daniel]

Bonjour Olivier,

I understand that initially the roads in Québec were tagged using this classification...
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Canada:Quebec
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/EN:Canada:Quebec

The concept of "trunk" is not really used in Québec, at least by French people.  So, local mapper won't use it.

In the Canvec product (based on GeoBase), a trunk/motorway is "An unimpeded, high speed controlled access thoroughfare for through traffic with typically no at grade intersections, usually with no property access or direct access and which is accessed by a ramp. Pedestrians prohibited". 

The difference between trunk/motorway is based on carriageways (single/dual).

Cheers,

Daniel


-----Original Message-----
From: talk-ca-bounces at openstreetmap.org [mailto:talk-ca-bounces at openstreetmap.org] On Behalf Of Olivier Hill
Sent: November 3, 2010 16:46
To: talk-ca at openstreetmap.org
Subject: [Talk-ca] Highway=trunk

Hello all,

Is this still accurate:
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Canadian_tagging_guidelines#Trunk

According to this, pretty much everything in Quebec is tagged wrongly with motorway.

Should this be fixed? I have changed part of the 50 Lachute to Grenville, but it is not clear where it stops, where the 148 is used and how it's linked to Montreal (via the 15?)

Best,
Olivier
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http://www.olivierhill.ca/

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