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

[Dubravko Penezic]

Hi Tom,

On 11/6/06, Tom Chance <tom at acrewoods.net> wrote:
> 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

I isnt usual and very rear (only in town with less then 10000 people),
and connected to administration responsibilty (ownership and
maintainence). Also primary road (Zupanijska cesta) connect towns and
dont have any intown usual part like footway, lighting, speed limits,
and so on.

> 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?

Yes, that was may last sugestion. You may ignore in-town value, and
in_town isnt must attribute (it is MAY attribute). That will nicely
feet in most map schema I hope so.

Talking about residential, urban, rural, industrial and son, I was
like to point that highway value residential doesnt respond to any
particular highway, it is description of road surraoundings, but keep
it for now out of this disscussion.

Regards,

Dubravko