[Talk-ca] Highway recoding

[Paul Norman]

On 1/26/2016 11:34 AM, Chandler Vancouver wrote:
>
> To begin with I am relatively new to OSM but I am trying to figure the 
> Canadian definition for trunk status and find the current definition 
> as described on 
> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Canadian_tagging_guidelines#Trunk 
> as academic and not functional. And please forgive me if I covering 
> previously discussed material. Also, my context might from British 
> Columbia focus as well.
>
> This conversation comes up from a discussion I have had with another 
> OSM contributor, so I'm posting below my response to the definition as 
> found at 
> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Canadian_tagging_guidelines#Trunk

http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Canada:British_Columbia#Highways_and_provincial_roads 
is a better description of how things are actually tagged in BC in OSM.

At least within the lower mainland and Fraser valley, the NHS is not 
used for tagging. My preferred examples of this are the new Highway 17, 
which didn't exist when the document was compiled, and some of the 
relatively small roads linking highways to ports.