[Talk-us] US highway classification

[Anthony]

On Sun, May 29, 2011 at 4:03 PM, Paul Johnson <baloo at ursamundi.org> wrote:
> On 05/29/2011 12:56 PM, Anthony wrote:
>> What do you mean by "global consistency" and why is it desired?
>
> Having some kind of uniformity on a large scale means you wouldn't have
> to learn how to read the map again just because you moved or traveled to
> an arbitrary jurisdiction.

Great, so to answer your question, we've already achieved global consistency.

> Also provides consistency for routers, since
> I can pretty much guarantee there's not a router out there that
> arbitrarily changes it's behavior based on what part of OpenStreetMap
> it's looking at...

Then you can pretty much guarantee that there's not a router out there
that works very well on OSM data across multiple locations.