[OSM-talk-ie] L-roads terrible signing or the lack thereof.

[Martin List-Petersen]

Dermot McNally wrote:
> 2008/11/16 Martin List-Petersen <martin at list-petersen.dk>:
>
>   
>> I can live with the definition that all unclassified roads are tertiary
>> roads. In Ireland tertiary roads aren't more "routy", but they also can
>> be single lane roads :)
>>     
>
> No, that's not what I'm suggesting at all. What I'm saying is that all
> roads are at least L-roads. What I'm also saying is that some should
> be tagged as tertiary and others as unclassified, based on a judgement
> call of how reasonable it would be to use that road as part of a
> through route to somewhere.
>   

Eh. You don't really hear my opinion on irish L-routes as alternative to 
anything :)

I've been living in rural Co. Galway for over 3 years and in the winter 
the L-roads become non-existant, because they flood :)


>> Should we add the requirement, that a tertiary road brings you from one
>> place to another (so it's no dead end) ?
>>     
>
> I don't think so. Especially where a road leads to, say, a village on
> a peninsula, you'll get roads that are important enough to be tertiary
> (or higher) even though they may end once they reach the village.
>   

Obviously, everything within reason. My question was simply to get an 
idea of the common opinion on tertiary roads or the lack thereof.

I've been mapping a lot of the "backroads" around Co. Galway and 
Roscommon in the last weeks, a lot of it will be on the Mapnik maps on 
wednesday and obviously the preference is, that it's mapped in a useful 
manner.

I've also updated roads, that others mapped, with the respective L-road 
numbering, where it's available.

Obviously any mapping done by me or others can always be improved and 
thus, I also try to always improve the way I do things.

Kind regards,
Martin List-Petersen

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