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

[Richard Welty]

On 3/6/10 5:21 PM, Anthony wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 6, 2010 at 4:59 PM, Richard Weait <richard at weait.com 
> <mailto:richard at weait.com>> wrote:
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>     Whoa!  There are too many places, in my experience, where those
>     network memberships do not line up with expectation of physical
>     characteristics.
>
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> Yeah.  Motorway is simple.  A road designated exclusively for motor 
> vehicles.  The rest should probably be handled on a state by state 
> basis.  Europe doesn't have a single tagging scheme for all of its 
> states.  Why should the US?
in some cases, not even state-by-state.

for example, NYC is a very different creature from upstate NY.

richard

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