[Talk-us] United States Roadway Classification Guidelines

[Ian Dees]

On Mon, Jul 26, 2010 at 11:54 PM, Nathan Edgars II <neroute2 at gmail.com>wrote:

> 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?
>

No. The proposal linked here suggests that mappers tag roads classified by
the government with certain highway= tags. My suggestion is that if we are
going to tag roads based on government classification and not follow the
highway tag guidelines on the wiki, then we should use a different tag
name.
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