[OSM-talk] highway=minor (Was:More on osmarender)

[Andy Robinson]

A road will only have a white line down it if it's over a certain width,
otherwise there is danger that you could catch the edge or kerb if you drove
the way you do everywhere else. I forget the width requirement (a similar
related value also dictates when a road has to have temp traffic lights
rather than narrow lanes when doing road works). I should have it somewhere
so will look up if nobody gets to it first.

Cheers

Andy

Andy Robinson
Andy_J_Robinson at blueyonder.co.uk 

>-----Original Message-----
>From: talk-bounces at openstreetmap.org [mailto:talk-
>bounces at openstreetmap.org] On Behalf Of Dean Earley
>Sent: 03 September 2006 11:22 PM
>To: Talk Openstreetmap
>Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] highway=minor (Was:More on osmarender)
>
>>>> Also, I noticed that highway=minor isn't being rendered by the
>>>> current osm-map-features.xml. Do people think that just adding
>>>> "|minor" to all the unclassified tag entries is the right thing to
>>>> do, or should we come up with some rendering between unclassified and
>>>> secondary for these roads?
>>>
>>> I was using minor but have since changed them all to unclassified but
>>> I do think there should be a highway=tertiary as well (IIRC, C roads
>>> do exist but are hard to identify)
>>> This would allow for majorish roads that are technically "unclassified".
>>
>> I notice that highway=minor seems to have vanished from map features.
>
>It was originally (mistakingly) added by me after seeing one of the
>pages (pre the highway change) mention it.
>
>> This isn't ideal, since:
>> a) there's a bunch of data out there that uses it that hasn't been
>changed
>> b) there is a big differnce between many c roads, and many tiny country
>>    lanes, and it'd be good to be able to spot that without looking at the
>>    width (if given)
>
>Even the OS has two grades of "unclassified". I think it is whether it
>has central lines or not. These are also rendered at two different sizes
>on their map.
>
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