[Talk-us] [Talk-us-newyork] Highway classification guidelines for New York State

Paul Johnson baloo at ursamundi.org
Thu Sep 16 20:56:05 UTC 2021


On Thu, Sep 16, 2021 at 2:26 PM Jmapb <jmapb at gmx.com> wrote:

> I can't say exactly whose word I took on these definitions, or when or
> where -- probably some combination of the wiki, the mailing list,
> conversations, changeset comments, and other channels -- but I've been
> under the naive impression that this was a settled question. It seems it's
> not! If the nature of the low end of the highway classification hierarchy
> is indeed up for debate, I'd say the NY proposal's recommendations for
> anything below tertiary might be better replaced with a simple text that
> recommends following standard tagging practices and local conventions.
>
 Probably could be fixed by replacing highway=whatever with a numerical
hierarchy but that sounds too much like actually fixing a broken tagging
scheme for OSM to actually handle based on previous discussions on fixing
broken parts of the tagging scheme.

>
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