[Talk-us] United States Roadway Classification Guidelines

[Nathan Edgars II]

On Mon, Jul 26, 2010 at 11:10 PM, Ian Dees <ian.dees at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.

Are you responding to a different proposal?