[OSM-talk] Bus sluice/gate (Was: Oxford University use...)

[Tom Hughes]

In message <474D913D.2030806 at frankieandshadow.com>
        David Earl <david at frankieandshadow.com> wrote:

> On 28/11/2007 15:52, Stephen Gower wrote:
>> I don't want an
>>   edit war with people who say the offical classification MUST be
>>   reflected in the highway= tag.  
>
> That's not the majority view as I understand it - my impression is that 
> most people support the view that we should map what we see on the 
> ground, possibly with additional as yet unspecified tags to reflect a 
> differing "official" designation. I presume the A420 isn't actually 
> signposted along Oxford High Street.

I don't that's the consensus at all - my view is that we should map
things as what they are (in this case a primary road). There has
recently been discussion about ways to map relative importance of
roads where that is (fairly unusually in he UK) at odds with their
official classification.

Tom

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