[Talk-us] Mass Change of Highway Classification in Larimer County Colorado

[Evin Fairchild]

On Tue, May 4, 2021 at 5:37 PM Paul Johnson <baloo at ursamundi.org> wrote:

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> On Tue, May 4, 2021, 18:40 Evin Fairchild <evindfair at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> No, we only care about physical characteristics when it comes to
>> motorways. According to the wiki, *only* motorways are defined by physical
>> characteristics; everything from trunk on down is defined by importance.
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> The wiki should be documenting how we map things, not prescribing how we
> map things.  If that's what the wiki says, it's wrong and neesa to be fixed.
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I'd say it's a bit of both. It documents consensus on how things are mapped
so that when people disagree on tagging, you can refer to what the wiki
says in order to settle the dispute.

The wiki page for the highway=* (
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:highway#Assumptions) is where it
says that only motorways are defined by physical characteristics; I must
note that this is a worldwide definition, not a US definition. It says "
Only highway=motorway
<https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:highway%3Dmotorway> and highway=
motorway_link
<https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:highway%3Dmotorway_link> indicate
quality. Other road types, from trunk to tertiary to residential, service,
path, footway, cycleway or track, do not imply anything about road quality,
only importance
<https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/Highway_key_voting_importance>
 and intended main use
<https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:highway%3Dpath>."

This was based upon a discussion that took place in 2009.
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/Highway_key_voting_importance
I'm not aware of anyone challenging this.
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