[Talk-us] proposed first principles for United States road tagging

[McGuire, Matthew]

Either way, it's biggest problem is that it isn't filled in rigorously.

I'm just throwing it out there as an existing well known set of road classifications designed for the US.

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From: Apollinaris Schoell [mailto:aschoell at gmail.com]
Sent: Wednesday, March 03, 2010 12:00 PM
To: McGuire, Matthew
Cc: Nathan Edgars II; Talk Openstreetmap; Dave Hansen
Subject: Re: [Talk-us] proposed first principles for United States road tagging



On 3 Mar 2010, at 7:45 , McGuire, Matthew wrote:

> The US Census Feature Class Code has descriptions of most types types of roads.
> This would at least tie it to an existing US standard.
>
> http://www.census.gov/geo/www/tiger/appendxe.asc
>
> This designation exists in many OSM roads tagged with TIGER:CFCC. However most roads could definitely use some refinement. We could strip the TIGER from the tag to just cfcc then refine it from there.
>

Don't think this will help much. I am sure this was used during tiger import already. Dave will know.


> -----Original Message-----
> From: talk-us-bounces at openstreetmap.org [mailto:talk-us-bounces at openstreetmap.org] On Behalf Of Nathan Edgars II
> Sent: Monday, March 01, 2010 9:19 PM
> To: talk-us at openstreetmap.org
> Subject: [Talk-us] proposed first principles for United States road tagging
>
> I'm proposing a couple first principles to govern whatever we decide
> on for tagging. Please discuss here:
> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Talk:United_States_roads_tagging#Proposed_first_principles
>



Nathan, thanks for starting this. From the experience in the last years I think it will not work well this way because of the anarchy, lack of time, endless discussions ...
this wiki page is huge and it will be easier to work on a topic at a time. Set a schedule for completion date discuss till then and document the agreement in the wiki. And then move any discussion elsewhere to have a compact reference as the main page. Just to make clear I am not calling for a dictatorship agreement can be also to disagree and variants can be documented on the main page too with a comment that there is multiple flavors.
already now it seems to go into direction of endless discussion with no final agreement as many discussions before.
Not sure why I don't get emails for updates on the wiki so it's really hard to follow.




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