[OSM-talk] Advanced highway tagging
Tom Hughes
tom at compton.nu
Thu Nov 22 08:46:56 GMT 2007
In message <68e55ace0711212351g3e1b13d7w1fa70043a6b1da86 at mail.gmail.com>
Abigail Brady <morwen at evilmagic.org> wrote:
> 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?
Isn't that more or less what he suggested?
Could I just point out that everybody seems to be doing a really
good job of reinventing STAGS in this thread...
Tom
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