[OSM-Talk-ZA] highway:trunk

[Andrew Gillespie]

http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/South_African_Tagging_Guidelines

that road is a motorway, I have driven it several times, trunk is  
obviously a mistake




On 11 Apr 2012, at 3:50 PM, Vesuvius wrote:

> Hi Johan
>
> Saw something similiar a while ago. I wasn't as nice as you though,  
> I didn't ask, I did some research and just fixed it, if "fix" is the  
> right word.
> I think you are right though, makes sense. For the average user  
> though, it doesn't seem to have much of an impact.
>
> If someone has a guidelines URL specific to our regional Q's, I'd  
> like to see it too :)
>
> Regardios
> Marlon
>
> ===
> Marlon van der Linde / xmpp: marlon205f at gmail etc...
>
>
> On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 3:24 PM, Johan W Joubert <Johan.Joubert at up.ac.za 
> > wrote:
> Hi,
>
> does anyone know why the N2 between George and Jeffreys Bay is  
> tagged as highway=trunk, and not highway=motorway. According to the  
> wiki trunk roads need not be divided (the case in N2), but is  
> typically managed by central government (should be `provincial').  
> But the N2 is actually a national road... not divided, I agree. Or  
> should we not consider the route code (and ownership) as guides?
>
> Maybe someone can shed light, please? Or just direct me to a  
> specific URL where I can read on how we SHOULD be tagging our roads  
> more correctly (if it indeed should be `trunk' ).
>
> Thanks in advance.
> Johan
>
>
>
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