[OSM-talk] Proposed new features highway value for in town description

[Tom Chance]

Ahoy,

On Monday 06 November 2006 20:45, Dubravko Penezic wrote:
> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Proposed_features/Highway_In-Town_S
>treet
> [snip]
> * 6 value for street with surface name outside of town (motorway,
> trunk, primary, secondary, unclassified, service)

In the UK each of those roads can be found within towns, so an 'A' road 
(primary) may go from outside a town all the way through and out the other 
side. Is that different in other countries? I'm not 100% clear on the 
situation elsewhere based on the above page and the Croation road tagging 
page:
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Croatian_roads_tagging

In the UK we would probably simply ignore the in-town highway values, although 
your inclusion of David's urban/rural road distinction, which also relates to 
Nick's question about urban/rural footpaths, complicates matters slightly.

It would make sense to keep the official classification (A, B, etc. in the UK) 
separate from metadata useful for rendering/navigation/etc. tools. If we do 
that then can UK users happily ignore the in-town values, and any others 
needed in other countries that have their own classification systems?

Regards,
Tom

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