[Talk-ca] Proposed changes to road classification and related stuff

John Whelan jwhelan0112 at gmail.com
Wed Feb 2 22:35:29 UTC 2022


Je suis aussi d’accord avec Pierre.

John

Pierre Béland via Talk-ca wrote on 2/2/2022 5:02 PM:
> Longue discussion, un peu difficile à suivre.
>
> Je ne vois pas ce qu'il y a à modifier dans la classification actuelle 
> des routes, a tout le moins pour le Québec dont je connais mieux la 
> réalité que pour les autres provinces.  Le réseau routier principal 
> est bien documenté par le Ministère des transports du Québec et nous 
> utilisons ces références.
>
> Une seule amélioration possible au Québec serait pour les routes 
> forestières qui relèvent du Ministère des terres et forêts et dont la 
> classification n'est pas aussi bien documentée que pour les routes 
> relevant du ministère des transports. Ces routes sont financées, 
> construites et entretenues par l'industrie forestière  Ces longues 
> routes forestière peuvent s'étendre sur des centaines de km et sont 
> fréquentées par des véhicules lourds dont des véhicules hors norme ont 
> généralement la priorité sur les autres usagers et on doit normalement 
> posseder un radio walky-talky pour informer de sa présence et 
> connaitre les déplacements des poids lourds. Les conditions hivernales 
> peuvent aussi être très variables et certaines routes fermées à 
> l'hiver ou après la fin d'exploitation d'un secteur particulier.   Les 
> touristes, chasseurs et amateurs de pêche qui s'aventurent sur ces 
> routes auraient avantage à en connaitre les conditions et pièges 
> spécifiques.
>
> Lorsque je documente les segments princiapaux de ces routes, j'utilise 
> la référence R0XXX telle qu'elle apparait sur les couches routières du 
> Gouvernement du Québec. J'ajoute aussi l'attribut priority 
> <https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/FR:Key:priority?uselang=fr> = 
> overweight_truck
> exemple R0400 https://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/6602953
>
> Il est déjà possible de faire coexister des nos. de référence des 
> routes par province avec des références interprovinciales en utilisant 
> une relation route pour les réseaux interprovinciaux.
>
> Pour ce qui est de discuter de la couleur et de la forme des panneaux 
> dans le rendu des cartes, cela se rapporte  bien évidemment aux styles 
> de cartes et n'a rien à voir avec le contenu de la base OSM.
>
> Pierre
>
>
> Le mercredi 2 février 2022, 16 h 13 min 48 s UTC−5, Jherome Miguel 
> <jheromemiguel at gmail.com> a écrit :
>
>
> I just had a look of the GTA at Magic Earth, but the case there is 
> that county/regional roads that were former provincial highways and 
> tagged primary use provincial highway shields. Also another thing is a 
> circle is used for regional/county roads and secondary highways. This 
> is the case for Magic Earth, but what about other renderers? Magic 
> Earth does seems to use a single rendering scheme across Canada that 
> correlates with the underlying OSM classification: shield for 
> motorway, trunk, and primary, and slightly squared-off oblong for 
> secondary. If we should keep using numbers only for ref=*, maybe ask 
> them to improve their render, considering different sign shapes are 
> used across different provinces and the route relation should dictate 
> the sign shape. Most province use a shield for top-level provincial 
> highways (or all highways if there isn't a lower-level network like 
> Alberta 501-986 highways, Manitoba provincial roads and Ontario 
> secondary highways), though others would have it in a different colour 
> (Saskatchewan shields are blue, Quebec green for ordinary provincial 
> highways and red-and-blue Interstate-like style for the autoroutes). 
> An exception exists for Nova Scotia as route numbers there use the "NS 
> [number scheme]", which follows the American way; Magic Earth doesn't 
> render them (so are US state route numbers), but I can point to them 
> how those should be rendered.
>
> By the way, for me, I would insist on adding a prefix (as in the 
> American way) as it will better deal with exceptional cases such as 
> those downloaded provincial highways now marked as county/regional 
> roads, and the proposed reclassifications push for it as it will 
> uncouple (albeit partially) official classification from the OSM 
> classification. That still would need an improvement to renderers 
> though as an adaptation. Also something to address is numbered routes 
> posted in TCH shields (use same scheme as regular provincial highways 
> of [postal abbrev] [number] or use TCH [number]).
>
> Any other renderers that does Canadian highway numbers well aside from 
> the US-centric OSM render?
>
> On Wed, Feb 2, 2022 at 6:33 AM Kevin Farrugia <kevinfarrugia at gmail.com 
> <mailto:kevinfarrugia at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     The relations should define the shield (network=*), not a prefix
>     on the ref.  I think most of Ontario's highways and all of the
>     province's freeways have the network tags present.
>
>     Former provincial highways in Ontario shouldn't be an issue
>     because they've been tagged with their post-download numbers and
>     relevant network=* value.  The mass downloading of highways
>     happened 6 years before OSM started, so they've always been under
>     this classification.  Also highways doesn't necessarily mean
>     freeways (400-Series) - some of these highways were 2 lane country
>     roads at the time that could now be maintained by the growing
>     suburban population and were no longer as relevant with the
>     expansion of the 400-Series system.
>
>     A Canadian-specific specification would be nice to have defined. 
>     We've just sort of gone with the flow and kind of adjusted the
>     American system and province-to-province differences always
>     confuses discussions.
>
>     -Kevin
>
>     On Tue, 1 Feb 2022 at 23:59, Jherome Miguel
>     <jheromemiguel at gmail.com <mailto:jheromemiguel at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>         On Magic Earth, the case is the shield rendered seem to depend
>         on the underlying classification (other renderers too?). So in
>         the case of some primaries in the GTA that are former
>         provincial highways, not adding a suffix such as CR or RR to
>         distinguish it from provincial highways (this being the likes
>         of the 401, the 407 and the other 400-series highways) would
>         result in a provincial highway shield being rendered instead
>         of a regional or county road shield. Maybe also a
>         consideration for provincial highways that use TCH sign except
>         in Ontario and Quebec.
>
>         On Tue, Feb 1, 2022 at 9:40 PM Brian M. Sperlongano
>         <zelonewolf at gmail.com <mailto:zelonewolf at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>             On Tue, Feb 1, 2022 at 11:08 PM Jarek Piórkowski
>             <jarek at piorkowski.ca <mailto:jarek at piorkowski.ca>> wrote:
>
>                 Many renderers use the underlying classification to
>                 determine what shield will be used
>
>
>             Down here south of the border, we recently launched the
>             openstreetmap-americana project, and we're the first open
>             source map that has highway shields with full concurrency
>             support on vector tiles. We do not use the highway
>             classification to determine which shield is used.  We
>             derive this information entirely from the list of road
>             route relations that a way is a member of, as well as the
>             network and ref tag on that route relation.  We ignore the
>             ref tag on ways entirely for the purpose of generating
>             shields.
>
>             (no, we haven't implemented Canada highway shields yet. 
>             Yes, we want to)
>
>             [1] https://zelonewolf.github.io/openstreetmap-americana
>
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