[OSM-talk] Classifying Ways worldwide

[Raphael Jacquot]

Collinson Mike wrote:
> I've been a passive member of OSM for over a year now and feel that over 
> the last few weeks it has moved from being a purely experimental 
> UK-centric system to being a (the!) working worldwide repository of open 
> source street map data and of collaborative standards.  I've therefore 
> spent a few days to add all my accumulated collection.  On that 
> experience, I feel the one big difficulty I still have as a beginner is 
> how to systematically describe the Ways that I make in terms that can be 
> easily used by other members to make maps, navigation systems and 
> hopefully to show more information on the www.openstreet.org 
> <http://www.openstreet.org/> main page map itself. 
> 
> I'm therefore very interested in a suggestion made by Wollschaf  a 
> couple of days ago and feel it is very elegant, so add some arguments in 
> favour of it.  It solves a number of problems for me mapping outside the 
> UK and is flexible enough to create a set of "starter" tag values for 
> beginner's to use and still be useful for complex situations and new uses.
> 
> The essence of what Wollschaf said (below) was: use two tags, one for 
> the administrative classification and one for the physical:
> 
> waytype=A (2 lanes+ 1 breakdown lane on a motorway, or very wide road)
> waytype=F (1 lane, wide enough for a car)
> wayclass=uk:primary
> wayclass=uk:motorway
> wayclass=de:autobahn
> wayclass=de:bundesstrasse
> wayclass=au:stateroute_a (Single carriageway interstate or interregional 
> primary highways)
> wayclass=au:expressway

also, you need height limits, width limits and weight limits for a
number of ways. this is the important thing for truckers