[Talk-us] US Trunk road tagging

[Paul Johnson]

On Fri, May 7, 2021 at 5:14 PM Minh Nguyen <minh at nguyen.cincinnati.oh.us> wrote:
>
> Vào lúc 07:21 2021-05-07, Zeke Farwell đã viết:
> > On Fri, May 7, 2021 at 9:32 AM Paul Johnson
> > <baloo at ursamundi.org
> > <mailto:baloo at ursamundi.org>> wrote:
> >
> >     Effectively adds more levels easily, and allows better differentiation
> >     for situations like a small cycleway in a bicycle parking facility
> >     versus part of a divided bicycle freeway, for one.  And disconnects it
> >     from a specific hierarchy that it's increasingly apparent really only
> >     works for the UK.
> >
> >
> > It works fine for other places.  We do have to work harder at it than
> > the UK does, though.  Our signed routes don't map cleanly to a sensible
> > hierarchy of importance.   Would different names be better?  Sure.  But,
> > it really doesn't feel that hard to do this translation in my head:
> >
> > motorway --> level 1
> > trunk --> level 2
> > primary --> level 3
> > secondary --> level 4
> > tertiary --> level 5
> > unclassified/residential --> level 6
>
> Ah, I thought you were suggesting literally adopting a numeric scheme
> akin to admin_level=*, which mostly skips every other number, leaving
> room for the occasional regional anomaly. If the keywords mapped to
> 2/4/6/8/etc.

I am actually suggesting that.