[talk-ph] changes of road types

Eugene Alvin Villar seav80 at gmail.com
Fri Jan 22 15:45:10 GMT 2010


On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 10:50 PM, <riber101-osm at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Looking at the length of road of the different types this seem to underline
> the problem.
>
> Motorway, Trunk, Primary, secondary and tertiary should only be a tiny
> fraction of all the roads.
> The bulk of the roads should be of lesser importance, such as unclassified
> and residential.
>

There is a large amount of primary roads in the database right now simply
because these are somewhat long-distance routes and are the first to be
mapped. But if you analyze a mature area like Metro Manila, I'm willing to
bet that a great majority of roads are unclassified/residential.
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