[OSM-talk] OpenStreetMap routing service

[Bernt M. Johnsen]

2008/9/8 Lambertus <osm at na1400.info>:
> Lars Aronsson wrote:
>> Lambertus wrote:
>> There are no roads in Scandinavia that are called "trunk"
>> roads.  So we have to invent our own understanding of when to use
>> this label. Unfortunately, the Finns and Norwegians made a
>> different interpretation than the Swedes.  So at some zoom levels,
>> it looks as if Norway and Finland are full of green trunk roads,
>> while Sweden is a country with very few roads.  Because we labeled
>> those roads as "primary", which are not rendered at that zoom
>> level.
>>
>> I think we should change all Swedish "riksväg" roads from primary
>> to trunk, to match the definition used for Norway and Finland, and
>> to make the map of Sweden look less empty at some zoom levels.

FYI: In Norway trunk road are used for "stamveg" (marked with green
number signs in the wild), not "riksveg" (white signs). This is
described in http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/No:Map_Features

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Bernt Marius Johnsen