[Talk-us] US Trunk road tagging

[Mateusz Konieczny]

May 6, 2021, 21:53 by baloo at ursamundi.org:

> On Thu, May 6, 2021 at 2:37 PM Minh Nguyen <minh at nguyen.cincinnati.oh.us> wrote:
>
>>
>> Vào lúc 21:41 2021-05-05, Adam Franco đã viết:
>> > At this point I'm thinking of the
>> > highway=trunk,primary,secondary,tertiary,unclassified,residential values
>> > as simply funny labels for descending numerical values of
>> > connectivity-importance. I'm now on board with the position that only
>> > motorway implies any physical characteristics.
>>
>> Whoever came up with the original admin_level=* framework was brilliant:
>> by starting out using only even numeric values, it became possible for
>> some regions to slot in odd values, ensuring a rough consistency across
>> regions while accommodating important distinctions peculiar to a
>> particular region. If the admin_level=7 slot weren't waiting to be used,
>> I don't know what Ohio and Indiana would've done about townships.
>>
>
> Yeah, I'd honestly be OK with dropping highway=* values other than
> bridleway, path, footway, cycleway and road entirely and moving the
> hierarchical view to highway_level analogous to the admin-level.
>
What would be a difference? highway=* effectively is that,
with sole difference that it is using text names rather than numbers.

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