[Talk-us] United States Roadway Classification Guidelines

[Nathan Edgars II]

On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 7:08 AM, Ian Dees <ian.dees at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.
>
Then you seem to have stopped reading before "refinement".

(By the way, I disagree with some of what's in "the next day", but
that's not central to the proposed guidelines.)