[Talk-us] Georgia wiki and Functional Classification

[Adam Franco]

Give a read to
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/United_States/Highway_classification .
This effort has been building in New England and the northeast in general,
has a few states complete, and a number of others in progress on various
stages
<https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/United_States/Highway_classification#State-specific_Classification_Standards>
of documentation, consensus building, and retagging. As part of this effort
Kevin did a great analysis of New York's functional classification system
<https://kbk.is-a-geek.net/20210529/NYS_classes.html> that might be useful
to you as an example as you work through understanding and mapping
Georgia's classification scheme to OSM.

There are a lot of discussions on this effort happening in #local-northeast
channel in the OSMUS Slack <https://slack.openstreetmap.us/> if you want
more background, but this mailing list is a fine forum for discussion as
well.

On Thu, Sep 2, 2021 at 8:12 PM Eric Patrick <txemt1 at gmail.com> wrote:

> I'm proposing to redo the current wiki for the State of Georgia
> <https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Georgia_(U.S._state)>. The page
> hasn't had a serious update in almost 7 years, a lot has changed within the
> 7 yeas, even for rural places in Georgia. I'm also proposing to upgrade the
> state roads to functional classification according to GaDOT's webiste.
>
> Here are my proposals for the wiki page:
>
>    - OVERHAUL the layout of page, making it easier to read.
>    - DELETE the Events section, or at least update it to have the "Other
>    mapping parties" and leave that section of the events section. This would
>    remove the Atlanta Citywide event and the Fox news article.
>    - OVERHAUL the tagging guidelines for Georgia and make the FC chart
>    more clearer. More on this further down.
>    - UPGRADE the reference section to include County Roads as "CR ##"
>    - AMEND the speed limit table to only go up to 70mph. No road in
>    Georgia is higher than 70mph.
>    - UPGRADE the relations to any other relations that may be added. For
>    the most part, I would leave this alone.
>    - LEAVE ALONE the Land Use and Data Sources tabs, only adding if there
>    is something that needs to be added.
>    - DELETE the Tiger tab, unless it's deemed very important. The last
>    update to that shows the 2008. The link in that tab shows a page which also
>    hasn't been updated since 2008. I'm also open to discussing the importance
>    of this, if there are other updates out there.
>    - UPDATE the To Do tab. There are some things I can think about that
>    needs to be added
>    - MOVE the Cities tab toward the top and update it by adding some
>    large cities in the state, such as Macon, Albany, Savannah, Augusta, and
>    Columbus. I'm also open to removing this tab or adding some other cities as
>    well. I don't believe a list of every single town is needed here, or
>    anywhere for that matter. A link can be put in for non OSM wiki pages which
>    list every town in Georgia, if it really matters that much.
>    - DELETE the City Template tab unless there is a valid reason to keep
>    this, which I am not thinking of.
>    - DELETE Extracts tab. The current link on that tab is not working.
>    - ADD a references tab where references can be cited within the page
>    and linked at the bottom, or extra links can also be added for various
>    things.
>
>
>
>
> Functional classification (FC) proposal using this
> <https://itos.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=962a2591f91a4303aeafe016ba8db96b> (you
> will have to zoom in):
> This is stemming from a conversation I've had with a few editors. Some
> editors are in the belief that every US highway should be a primary/trunk
> road, every state highway is a secondary road, and all county roads are
> tertiary roads. Some editors are in the belief that the state has followed
> the guidelines of FHWA and has determined which roads are classed based on
> those guidelines. With FC, it puts everyone on the same page. FC creates a
> well established set of rules for roads within the state, as well as helps
> create consistency with Florida and Alabama in regards to those states
> being mapped with FC applied. Anyone can look at the state, look at the
> data, and understand how to edit in the area. I also understand there will
> be some anomalies within the state and FC, as there are with every state.
> In Texas, US 377 is deems a major collector between its terminus with US
> 277 and Junction, Texas. In Georgia, US 78 is a major collector between US
> 27 (Breman) and GA 61 (Villa Rica}. There are some dirt roads within the
> state which may be deemed a major collector or a minor collector. The state
> has determined these roads to be classed as they are. I am open to
> discussion about trunk roads. I saw a discussion about this here
> <https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk-us/2021-May/021099.html>,
> but I believe no consensus was ever formed. I'd like to start it for
> Georgia and get it formed for Georgia.
>
> The chart on the Georgia wiki page is not a bad starting point. I would
> update to eliminate the examples and column and possibly update some of the
> wording within the description. Most of this looks like it was copy/pasted
> straight from the FHWA website (although that page isn't opening for me at
> the current moment) as definitions of the various classification of roads.
>
> I'm open to discussion and to ideas about both the wiki page as well FC.
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