[Talk-lt] Upgrading E-Roads to trunks (fwd)

[Albertas Agejevas]

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From: Denis Chapligin <akashihi at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [Talk-lt] Upgrading E-Roads to trunks
To: Albertas Agejevas <alga at pov.lt>
Date: Tue, 1 Dec 2009 20:11:49 +0200
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Hi Albertas,

2009/11/23 Albertas Agejevas <alga at pov.lt>

> In principle I'm not opposed to marking E-roads as trunk.  The
> arguments for in in Lithuania would be a more cohesive road network on
> low zoom levels.  Another argument would be better harmonisation with
> Latvia and Belarus, as well as RF, where a similar policy is already
> in place for different reasons.  However by and large Lithuania is
> looking towards the West :)  If we look at Poland, they are very fair
> in tagging roads as trunk.  Only fast, dual carriageway roads are
> marked so there.
>
>
As far as i know, Belarus and RF are already moving for a new marking policy
and i've heard that there are some discussions about it in Polish community.


> On the other hand, I see distinct value in having 'trunk' mean road
> condititions, rather than route importance.  There is a distinct
> difference between simple, good quality 10 m wide roads such as
> A12/E77, fast, dual carriageway roads such as A1 between Vilnius and
> Kaunas (almost a motorway, but towing, bycicles allowed, stopping on
> the shoulder/emrgency lane is allowed, 100 km/h speed limit), and A1
> between Kaunas and Klaipėda (restricted access, 130 km/h motorway).
> This distinction would be lost if we tagged all E-roads as trunk.
>

You're right! But there are lot of 'road condition tags' like
'surface','lanes','maxspeed' etc So with the new marking scheme every road
could have a two independent property sets - road's physical conditions(tags
mentioned above) and road importance for travellers (highway,ref,etc) Sounds
reasonable, isn't it?


> > PS: i'll be in Vilnius next week, so we may discuss it with help of
> > Vilkmergės alus :)
>
> Ooops, too late :)
>
> I usually go to Vilnius every 3-4 monthes :-)

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