[OSM-talk] [tagging] updated RFC: Highway administrative and physical descriptions

[Lester Caine]

Alex Mauer wrote:
> I've added a decision tree to the physical section of the page, as well 
> as removed the "boulevard" designation (since it didn't really add much)
> 
> I'd like to have some more comments from the UK and german end, as to 
> whether or not A and B roads (and others?) fit into the highway:admin 
> scheme.
> 
> Again, the proposal location is:
> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Proposed_features/Highway_administrative_and_physical_descriptions

:admin is appropriate for the UK - but not laid out as it is at present. 
Motorways may be under different administration to the 'Highways Agency' and 
the 'Highways Agency' is also responsible for other main roads, but private 
companies will actually be responsible for managing those roads.
Basically WHO admins a road is a bit of a lottery, so trying to create a 
simple list as currently proposed is wrong for the UK :( :admin SHOULD be the 
company responsible for maintaining the road.

:physical simply adds complications without actually fixing anything. Trying 
to add _almost and _twolane does not provide ANY useful information, and a UK 
dual_carriageway is unlikely to have shoulders. Infact HAVING hard shoulders 
is part of the definition that makes it a motorway, and may result in it being 
A...(M) - OK a motorway_almost except that the A1(M) has three lanes in areas.
So it does not fit the decision tree and if it does not have two lanes why is 
it a (motorway_twolane) ? it's motorway_singlelane but then it would probably 
not be a motorway )

Yes I know I should put this on the talk page - but I can't get in at the 
moment :(

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