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

[Jherome Miguel]

After all, we're going after our friends south of the border (please see
the wiki for the proposal background). While there's a more or less
consistent application of trunk across the country (it's mostly NHS core
routes), there's still this application of trunk to mean an expressway and
there also goes the classification changes at the border (some of which has
been addressed). Our American friends have been slowly doing away with
trunk to mean such kind of roads, having moved to using the expressway=yes
tag following discussions. To make things short, the proposal tries to
coordinate with the changes already being made south of the border.

For the trunk tag, well, it's quite used in two ways across the world, to
either mean the most important roads that aren't freeway/motorway or a road
in between an ordinary at-grade highway and a freeway. Most of the world
follows the former, but the latter def is quite commonly used in most of
Europe. In ours, it's quite a mixed bag, so is the United States before the
2021 revision.

On Tue, Feb 8, 2022 at 7:33 AM Martin Chalifoux <martin.chalifoux at icloud.com>
wrote:

> 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:
>
> 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.
>
> Personally I quite like the existing tagging and don't really see the need
> to retag everything.
>
> It isn't clear to me what the advantage of retagging everything is.
>
> 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.
>
> Cheerio John
>
>
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