[talk-ph] Fwd: Your final say on the proposed road classification scheme

[Jherome Miguel]

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From: Jherome Miguel <jheromemiguel at gmail.com>
Date: Tue, May 18, 2021 at 11:38 AM
Subject: Re: [talk-ph] Your final say on the proposed road classification
scheme
To: Eugene Alvin Villar <seav80 at gmail.com>


To me, I would say our expressways (HSH-1 standard ones like our existing
expressways like NLEX, SLEX) is the nearest thing to the interstates or
freeways in the U.S., being built to the same standards.

Our draft version is also more complete than OSM U.S.'s; we can get more
ideas from their draft, but I think ours (which I based on Canadian tagging
practice, which is somehow similar to U.S. practice) is fine already and is
better adapted to the reality in the Philippines.

I would also like to say that the living_street classification will no
longer be used, following discussions elsewhere in the wiki about its use
in some developing countries like ours. The original intent of the tag as
documented in the wiki is to reflect a special kind of road classification
usually found in various European countries. In addition, like with the use
of track for unpaved minor roads, using living_street in the case of narrow
urban roads with no sidewalks or even streets full of vendors and other
obstructions before the 2019 road clearing raises concerns about mapping
for the renderer. At last, it wasn't in our original classification scheme
until it was added *without* discussion in 2015. Other tags can tell where
a road is narrow or full of obstructions

I'm still working with the map of proposed reclassifications, trying to
focus on the denser parts of the country like Metro Manila, CALABARZON and
Metro Cebu. These regions really need some rationalization of its trunk and
primary networks.

On Tue, May 18, 2021 at 1:45 AM Eugene Alvin Villar <seav80 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> The OSM US community is currently redrafting their highway classification
> system too. The draft wiki page is quite informative and it may be nice to
> align ourselves a bit too.
>
> https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/United_States/Highway_classification
>
> Of course there are major differences like we don't have the equivalent of
> the U.S. Interstate system and the U.S. is federally organized (there
> exists state routes) and population density is not as dense as the PH.
>
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