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

[David Earl]

On 28/11/2007 16:22, Tom Hughes wrote:
> 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.

Except in odd cases like this one in Oxford, I have no idea how I would 
know that information.

David