[Talk-ca] Highway recoding

[Begin Daniel]

Bonjour Ken,
You wrote “this level of confusion just encourages me to stop contributing” …

First, do not stop to contribute! There is so much fun to map about everything in your neighbourhood, on thematic content (biking trails, national parks … and so on)!

Secondly, the annual report you cite could be used to define our road network with only a few road classes, since many people (including me) consider that OSM road classification sometime overkill (while there are little options to map some other topics!-)  …

The “problem” - which is actually the solution - is that people from around the world have decided to use OSM and mapped the world using another road classification schema for more than a decade. Furthermore, if OSM users start referring to their own national agencies to define the OSM content, it is just going to be worst!

The Canada:British Columbia guidelines page is very close to the classification that was discussed and agreed with the community 7-8 years ago when we were working on NRN schema to translate it into OSM definitions (not the contrary). It is just recently that some users started to retag the whole Canadian network according to their view, without consulting first the community (contrarily to what you did).

This tread is about clarifying the definitions and make them clear in the wiki, everywhere it may concern the Canada. So, I am getting back with the above definitions that are using both wiki’s definitions and current thread discussions:

Tag: highway=motorway to identify the highest-performance roads within a territory. Typically, these controlled-access highways have a minimum of two lanes in each direction that are separated by a barrier…

Tag: highway=trunk for high performance roads that don't meet the requirement for motorway. In Canada, these roads must have some of the controlled-access features found on a motorway.

Tag: highway=primary for major highway linking large towns … The traffic for both directions is usually not separated by a central barrier. In Canada, these roads usually have none of the controlled-access features found on trunk and motorway.

Again, hope it will help the discussion ☺
Daniel

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