[OSM-talk] street traits

[Jeffrey Martin]

Here is my list of traits.

Lane width.
Number of lanes in each direction.
Number of bidirectional lanes not controlled by signals.
Number of bidirectional lanes controlled by signals.
size of shoulder
Center turn lane.
In lane parking.
Separate parallel parking. side of street
Separate diagonal parking. side of street
parking on shoulder
parking partially on shoulder
parking partially on sidewalk
access: ramps only, ramps and full intersections, intersections, t
intersections (divided highway).
divided by barrier
divided by median
divided by park
median width
pavement



On Sat, May 10, 2008 at 3:30 AM, Jeffrey Martin <dogshed at gmail.com> wrote:

> I was thinking about classifying roads in Korea. What criteria am I using
> when I put a road in a classification?
>
> I'm starting to think that my support of the current use of the highway tag
> was misguided. Maybe we should
> be more specific.
>
> I know some people say they don't want to be stringing tape measures across
> the road, but for most
> countries I think there are only a handful of standard sizes for lanes and
> shoulders. Once you know the
> sizes for your country you can pretty much just eyeball it.
>
> A name for each kind of road in a person's country could be set up as an
> editor feature. I select
> "mountain road 2" from my list and it fills in the number of lanes, lane
> size, shoulder size, etc.
> for me.
>
> Another option might be to have some kind of bot that fills in specific
> data based on country
> specific highway tags.
>
> I think the first option is probably better. Would it be too complex to
> base rendering on a combination
> of specific road traits?
>
> --
> http://bowlad.com




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