[Talk-us] downgraded highway classification in US

[Richard Welty]

On 4/9/11 10:59 AM, Nathan Edgars II wrote:
> On 4/9/2011 8:41 AM, Richard Welty wrote:
>> there are some notes in the Wiki about downgrading state highways
>> to tertiary if they don't connect up to other secondary roads at
>> reasonable intervals.
>>
>> in the spirit of this, when i encountered a county route in Rensselaer
>> County that was a stub that only reached a couple of houses and
>> a trailer park, i decided to try tagging it as residential, but included
>> the ref tag for CR 9; the road in question is Lauster Terrace. As you
>> can see here, Mapnik doesn't handle ref tags on a residential road
>> particularly well:
>>
>> http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=42.55316&lon=-73.67955&zoom=17&layers=M 
>>
>>
>> before i rush off and open a mapnik ticket, i thought i'd broach
>> this question: how far should we downgrade routes in these
>> circumstances? was residential too far in this case, should i have
>> stopped at unclassified?
>
> Residential and unclassified are rendered identically. I've never seen 
> this particular bug - usually it's text like this but at least placed 
> properly. Residential does look accurate, given the dead-end, but I'd 
> also consider tertiary due to the centerline.
>
> Is CR 9 actually signed, or is it just an internal designation used by 
> the county? If the latter, unsigned_ref might be a better choice.
yes, it is signed. i caught it out of the corner of my eye when passing by,
it's not on any of the unofficial reference lists, and i wasn't expecting to
find it there. it's one of a couple very short CRs i've stumbled across in
Rensselaer County that aren't on any of the lists.

i'm not averse to putting it back to tertiary given it's an official CR.

i wouldn't, i think, upgrade everything that has full striping as that would
mean that most all roads in, say, Saratoga County end up tertiary as the
towns there like to spend money on stripes. a standard based on striping
makes more sense in Rensselaer County where the towns, for the most
part, don't spend a lot of money on painting the roads.

richard