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I would prefer to define the streets by its digits first.
If somebody realizes a difference between digits and street definition he will have to change it and let us know.
We will have to keep track of those abnormal streets.
It would be amazingly great to have a list of all streets with digits that would be generated automatically. -
But if there are exceptions we will need to handle it. The rule digits = road definition is not correct. This is what we already found out.
So the correct way to define the way is not the digits but the color of the sign. This is my point for the whole discussion. -
Yes, I would like to move it up and have a clear definition for the important Israeli streets.
Please remember that we don’t map for the renderer. http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Good_practice -
In my opinion this is exactly the opposite of a clear definition. Who defines that the road 4 near Raanana should be trunk and not primary?
I would not know an argument to discuss with somebody the difference.
BTW: Check out the road 4 from this junction (http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=32.12468&lon=34.856608&zoom=18&layers=M) and count how many traffic lights will be left to the north if they continue on the proposed roads at each junction. In my opinion they will declare more parts of road 4 as highway after finishing this
In my opinion they are more significant. It will take you drive more time for the same distance on a 6 lanes road inside of Tel Aviv with traffic lights with a speed limit of 50 km/h than using the small 2 lane road outside of the city that has a speed limit of 60 km/h or even 80 km/h. So I hope the routing would guide me on that route instead through the huge city road.
And this brings me to another important thing. The max speed (here a outdated image of a sign). Jan 2011 the max speed limit was raised to 110 km/h:
So it could be a definition like this:
=> MOTORWAY => Max speed 110 km/h
=> TRUNK => Max speed 90 or 100 km/h
=> PRIMARY => Max speed 80 or 90 km/h
I’m not very sure on this max speed theory. This needs to be cross- checked.