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In short the general definition of {{Key|highway}} should be changed to '''importance |
In short the general definition of {{Key|highway}} should be changed to '''importance instead of physical attributes'''. |
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After continuous discussions on talk and talk-de about the general meaning of the Key {{Key|highway}}, it was agreed, that the current definition, introduced in 2007, did not reflect the actual meaning of the key and is posing a lot of problems, especially in the context of a world-map. |
After continuous discussions on talk and talk-de about the general meaning of the Key {{Key|highway}}, it was agreed, that the current definition, introduced in 2007, did not reflect the actual meaning of the key and is posing a lot of problems, especially in the context of a world-map. |
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Therefore the page was changed after discussions to reflect the common practise better and achieve a more generic definition appliable in all contexts. |
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In short the definition of {{Key|highway}} should be changed to '''importance instead of physical attributes'''. This does not mean not to tag physical attributes, they are very important for a lot of reasons. Therefore the proposed changes also include references to the most important physical attributes to add: {{Key|lanes}}, {{Key|surface}}, {{Key|width}}. |
In short the definition of {{Key|highway}} should be changed to '''importance for the road grid/network instead of physical attributes'''. This does not mean not to tag physical attributes, they are very important for a lot of reasons. Therefore the proposed changes also include references to the most important physical attributes to add: {{Key|lanes}}, {{Key|surface}}, {{Key|width}}. |
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* '''Yes''' to classifying roads by importance, '''no''' to the idea that this page should be needed after the mailing list discussion. --[[User:Wynndale|Wynndale]] 16:43, 27 August 2009 (UTC) |
* '''Yes''' to classifying roads by importance, '''no''' to the idea that this page should be needed after the mailing list discussion. --[[User:Wynndale|Wynndale]] 16:43, 27 August 2009 (UTC) |
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* '''Yes''' we already do this in Sweden. [[User:Norpan|Norpan]] 17:12, 27 August 2009 (UTC) |
* '''Yes''' we already do this in Sweden. [[User:Norpan|Norpan]] 17:12, 27 August 2009 (UTC) |
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* '''Yes''' to classifying roads by importance, see discussion page. --[[User:HeikoE|HeikoE]] 19:18, 27 August 2009 (UTC) |
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* '''Yes''' because it is already practised in Germany and many other countries. --[[User:FK270673|FK270673]] 20:48, 27 August 2009 (UTC) |
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* '''Yes''' because it doesn't matter. An attempt to define the highway tag in one sentence, which applies from Germany to Nigeria, is an epic fail anyway. --[[User:Bass|Bass]] 22:17, 27 August 2009 (UTC) |
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Revision as of 23:39, 27 August 2009
Summary
In short the general definition of highway=* should be changed to importance instead of physical attributes.
Longer Version
After continuous discussions on talk and talk-de about the general meaning of the Key highway=*, it was agreed, that the current definition, introduced in 2007, did not reflect the actual meaning of the key and is posing a lot of problems, especially in the context of a world-map.
Therefore the page was changed after discussions to reflect the common practise better and achieve a more generic definition appliable in all contexts.
In short the definition of highway=* should be changed to importance for the road grid/network instead of physical attributes. This does not mean not to tag physical attributes, they are very important for a lot of reasons. Therefore the proposed changes also include references to the most important physical attributes to add: lanes=*, surface=*, width=*.
Reasoning
This voting is set up because each of the members of the OSM 'family' deeply respects the opinions of her/his colleagues and so wouldn't want to make major changes to one of the most-used keys - especially changes that have proved controversial - without going through as 'democratic' and open a process as possible. For details see: [[1]]
The changes were following a discussion announced here: http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk/2009-July/039211.html (please see followups to keep track, continued also here: http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk/2009-August/039444.html )
Changes in detail
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php?title=Key%3Ahighway&diff=316036&oldid=315699
Discussion
please use the mailing lists and the discussion page
Voting
don't know how to start, but I guess some of the rules for proposing new tags (formally not appliable here) will apply nonetheless (period of discussion), so I'm awaiting feedback from the Wiki-advocats how to do this in a legal way.