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

[Martin Chalifoux]

I feel the same as you do John, and I also like the way it is right now. So I would like to understand the issues they want to fix and I don’t get it yet. As the saying goes, it if aint broken don’t fix it. 

> On Feb 8, 2022, at 09:28, john whelan <jwhelan0112 at gmail.com> wrote:
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> I suspect it all stems from the roots of OSM.  A UK motorway is quite different to a Canadian one and there has been lots of discussion about classification of primary, motorway, trunk etc. in various countries.
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> Personally I quite like the existing tagging and don't really see the need to retag everything.
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> It isn't clear to me what the advantage of retagging everything is.
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> You loose the sense of local ownership if you move to standardised tagging and in this case where it is not black and white I fail to see any advantage.
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> Cheerio John
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> On Tue, Feb 8, 2022, 09:15 Martin Chalifoux via Talk-ca <talk-ca at openstreetmap.org <mailto:talk-ca at openstreetmap.org>> wrote:
> Hi Miguel, maybe I missed something, what is the issue with the trunk designation to start with ? What is broken that you want to fix ? You seem to want to avoid the trunk tag altogether and move everything up to motorway or down to primary as if trunk was improper. 
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