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

[Paul Johnson]

Aaand there it is, proving my point right on cue.

On Thu, Sep 16, 2021 at 4:07 PM MoiraPrime <MoiraPrime at pm.me> wrote:

> They're already numbers‽
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> From most important to least important.
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> 0 - Trunk
> 1 - Primary
> 2 - Secondary (the 2 is literally in the name)
> 3 - Tertiary (the 3 is also in the name)
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> This isn't rocket science.
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> Sent from ProtonMail mobile
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> -------- Original Message --------
> On Sep 16, 2021, 3:56 PM, Paul Johnson < baloo at ursamundi.org> wrote:
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> On Thu, Sep 16, 2021 at 2:26 PM Jmapb <jmapb at gmx.com> wrote:
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>> 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.
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>  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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