[Talk-GB] Classification of roads
SK53
sk53.osm at gmail.com
Thu Aug 19 18:51:35 UTC 2021
I've never found them much use for filtering roads or even remotely worked
out the criteria used for assignment.
Given that the first bit of Alexandria road is presumably busy with
Waitrose customers & deliveries. I'd think tertiary would be appropriate to
the Waitrose car park. The regular presence of HGVs or buses can often be a
useful hint that tertiary status should be considered. I did have a look at
a vaguely similar location, Waitrose in Maidenhead, where access to the car
park & the delivery bay is via an unclassified road, but in that case the
road is a dead-end and serves no residential properties.
I remember tms13 mapping a short strip of road accessing a school in the
Highlands as tertiary (presumably based on the LA's road list), but it
stuck out like a sore thumb with all the roads providing access being
unclassified, so I moved it to the same class. In my view tertiary roads
should form a coherent network with higher level roads, and isolated
tertiaries shouldn't exist. In this case presumably the council wanted to
ensure that road received more resources than if it had been in the 'D' or
'U' classes: I remember one council in the West of Scotland debating if
they had enough money to repair a bridge on a 'B' road (the option was to
reduce it to 1 lane rather than repair) so these can be important
considerations.
Jerry
On Thu, 19 Aug 2021 at 19:35, Colin Smale <colin.smale at xs4all.nl> wrote:
>
> > On 08/19/2021 8:03 PM Mark Goodge <mark at good-stuff.co.uk> wrote:
> >
> > These are only OS's opinion, not a legal status,
> Do you have any idea what criteria OS use? Are they influenced by
> information they receive from others, such as local authorities, or do they
> really decide autonomously?
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