[OSM-talk] mark a way as secondary

[Ben Gimpert]

Just a quick reminder -- the TIGER import is using the "highway="
notation as per the Wiki, so any transition back to "class=" will
require an enormous re-processing of the TIGER set.


On Sat, 10 Jun 06 @12:52pm, Joerg Ostertag wrote:
> On Saturday 10 June 2006 12:22, James Mastros wrote:
> > On Sat, Jun 10, 2006 at 11:47:28AM +0200, Immanuel Scholz wrote:
> > > I dislike the wording "highway" as a replacement for "class", since I
> > > think something like "highway=footpath" or even "highway=minor" is very
> > > confusing. That is the reason I recomment using "class" as key and
> > > "highway" as value (as example for german autobahns).
> >
> > The reason for this comes down to a difference between American English and
> > British English, or possibly a difference in styles of government.
> >
> > To a Brit, a way is a highway if it belongs to the Queen.  This covers
> > everything from the M25 to that little alleyway between buildings that you
> > use as a shortcut to the Chinese takeaway.  To an American, a way is a
> > highway, roughly, if it's big.  The word "highway" is often preceded by the
> > level of government it actually belongs to, as in "federal highway", or
> > "state highway".
> >
> > As such, I'd prefer to see "class" rather then "highway" as well, since
> > that should cover anybody with programming experince, rather then everybody
> > who is British, but that might just be because I'm an American programmer.
> > (Living in Britian.)
> 
> I completely agree with you. I always had problems with the naming highway=... 
> I always would have expected highway=3lanes or something like that.
> So i definitely would vote for something like class= of type=
> 
> Another wording issue would be abutters=... 
> The first thing i thought was: 
>    !! WHAT !!! I never heard about this word; but sounds 
>                like a nasty word (has butt in it ;-)
> 
> For me, a more technical/international English wording would be more 
> intuitive. Yes I know neighborhood instead of abutters wouldn't fit as good. 
> But more people would understand the meaning of the key right away. And more 
> people understanding the tags in the correct way right away leads to easier 
> keying the Data.
> 
> These are only 2 examples out of the complete naming scheme. So maybe 
> someone "none UK-english-centric" could have a look at the keys and make some 
> new suggestions for discussion.
> 
> 
> -
> 
> Joerg
> 
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