[Talk-us] United States Roadway Classification Guidelines

[Ian Dees]

On Mon, Jul 26, 2010 at 5:35 PM, Kevin Atkinson <kevin at atkinson.dhs.org>wrote:

>
> Roadway classification in the United States is subjective, there is no
> getting around that fact. No amount of discussion is going to fix that.
> Guidelines which only focus on each road separably without considering the
> entire network will lead to inconsistent results.  I have created a better
> set of guidelines at:
> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/United_States_Roadway_Classification_Guidelines
>
> Please look it over at let me know what you think.
>
>
I think that tagging using the highway=* tag should be done according to
what is documented elsewhere on the wiki.

If we want to start tagging road classification (according to the
US/state/local governments) then we should use a different tag. We already
do this with route relations on US routes, interstates, and some county
roads.
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