[OSM-talk] New dimension of vandalism

[Matt Williams]

2009/8/27 Martin Koppenhoefer <dieterdreist at gmail.com>:
> 2009/8/27 David Earl <david at frankieandshadow.com>:
>> On 27/08/2009 17:21, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote:
>>
>> Tagging something as a motorway when it isn't signed that way or
>> vice-versa just because in someone's opinion it looks a more "important"
>> road is a rubbish way of doing it IMO.
>
> actually a motorway isn't described by physical attributes either: it
> is a legal question of what signs are put there. I completely agree
> that a motorway is just to tag as such when it has a motorway-sign and
> over. There is IMHO nothing to discuss about motorway and the
> discussion was never about them. Also footways and cycleways, paths
> ecc. are not in the focus, neither are traffic-lights and other stuff
> aglomerated in the meantime in the highway-tag. The proposal is about
> the grid of interconnections, the road system in general.
>
> The thing is: how do you tag trunk, primary, secondary, tertiary and
> unclassified? They are the aim.

Like http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:highway#International_equivalence,
surely?

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