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

[Paul Johnson]

On Thu, Sep 16, 2021 at 4:59 PM Zeke Farwell <ezekielf at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Thu, Sep 16, 2021 at 5:01 PM Paul Johnson <baloo at ursamundi.org> wrote:
>
>> 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.
>>
>
> It probably could be, Paul, but unless you're volunteering to do the
> gargantuan amount of work necessary to make that happen it's not very
> helpful to continue raising this point.  For better or for worse the
> highway values are quite entrenched in the OSM software ecosystem and we
> just have to do the best we can with them.
>

Just to get started, a simple awk could solve this problem.
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