[OSM-talk] Highway=trunk : harmonization between countries ?

[Matej Lieskovský]

The change is usually on the order of single digit percent per year, making
even a decade old estimate much more representative than "heavy".
Seriously, "traffic=trunk" obviously means nothing if we cannot agree on
what "highway=trunk" means.


Ok, look here: https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=16/50.3124/13.8720
The highway=trunk section is a bypass built to motorway specification. It
is not even a motorroad, because it is so short, but the change in the
character of the road is immense - it goes from 2 lanes to 2+2 lanes with a
median, gets wider borders, no pedestrians, cyclists or agricultural
vehicles allowed... The fact that it is drawn as a trunk road hints at all
these changes.

On 23 February 2018 at 23:18, Fernando Trebien <fernando.trebien at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Wouldn't the estimate change often? We usually don't like that in OSM. [1]
>
> [1] https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Good_practice#Don.
> 27t_map_temporary_events_and_temporary_features
>
> On Fri, Feb 23, 2018 at 7:11 PM, Matej Lieskovský
> <lieskovsky.matej at gmail.com> wrote:
> > A "traffic" tag sounds like a good idea, but I'd have two suggestions:
> > 1) Can we find a better name?
> > 2) Estimates are better than words. I can imagine what 5000 cars per day
> > look like, but what is considered heavy traffic in (for example) Brazil?
> >
> > I'm all for letting highway tag only worry about high-level stuff
> (footway,
> > cycleway, road, path...)  and have a separate class tag for official
> > classification where needed.
> >
> > I've created this page: https://wiki.openstreetmap.
> org/wiki/Highway_classes
> > Feel free to add your region!
> >
> > PS: +1 to Michael's point about not changing classifications in countries
> > with an official system.
> >
> > On 23 February 2018 at 23:06, Michael Andersen <osm at hjart.dk> wrote:
> >>
> >> On fredag den 23. februar 2018 15.31.37 CET Fernando Trebien wrote:
> >>
> >> > Assuming the map is correctly classified in Europe, I'm seeing many
> >> > fragments of motorways and trunks all over the map. Is this an
> >> > artifact of local definitions? Or is it intentional and desirable?
> >>
> >> The "fragments" of trunks you see in Denmark are intentional and
> >> desirable. We
> >> follow the official classifications. We will not be happy to see you
> >> change them.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
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