[OSM-talk] Advanced highway tagging

[Abigail Brady]

On Nov 22, 2007 4:31 AM, Andrew MacKinnon <andrewpmk at gmail.com> wrote:

> What I feel would be the easiest thing to do for mappers would be to
> create a new tag for the administrative classification (let's call it
> designation). Then we could simply use the highway tag to make a
> general classification of the road based on its appearance alone,
> perhaps based on one of the "Tagging samples" guides linked to from
> <http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Key:highway>. This would be
> slightly subjective, but if we made the tagging samples fairly
> detailed it should be reasonably objective. We could always add more
> information (# of lanes, surface, speed limit, etc.) if we want to
> make more detailed maps.
>

Could I suggest leaving the existing highway tag alone and not redefining it
and making us have to re-tag every A and B road in the United Kingdom etc,
and instead introducing 2 new tags?

-- 
Abi
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