Talk:Ontario

Tagging Guidelines for County/Regional Roads

I think the tagging guidelines need to be revised, if we're looking to get output from available tools. There was a mailing list posting mentioning that highway="minor" is deprecated, so we probably shouldn't be using it.

Plus, given how current rendering tools are outputting, I believe minor is equaivalent to residential in display...which could leave huge areas with nothing to differentiate between roads. (Especially rural areas, where there may be no motorways, a single primary highway.)

I come at this as somebody living in Arnprior. There is one highway that goes past the edge of town (17, changing to 417 near the town's eastern edge), but other than that, the major roads in the area are Renfrew County Roads and (Ottawa) Regional Roads. The way I read the current guidelines, those would all be classed as highway="minor". I think they would be more appropriately tagged highway="secondary", although perhaps I'm misunderstanding the guidelines. - Cafemusique 15:29, 7 October 2006 (BST)

Yes, "minor" has been deprecated, so we need something else. I've recently seen some regional roads / township roads that are gravel. Perhaps we need to go more by the road condition than by the administrative designation? Promote the good roads to "secondary", and demote the gravel roads to "track"? Though "track" seems like it should exclude roads intended for regular use by the public.

Or perhaps a campaign to add "tertiary" to the highway namespace? Rw 04:16, 8 October 2006 (BST)

Perhaps you should file a request at Proposed features for k="highway" v="tertiary". Bruce89 17:58, 24 October 2006 (BST)

There is now a request for this feature at Proposed features/Tertiary road Bruce89 18:51, 5 November 2006 (UTC)

Saints in street names in Ontario

Hello,

I have started a discussion about "St." in street names like "St. Clair Avenue" on the talk-ca mailing list. I am suggesting that contrary to current practice in Toronto (at least), it should not be expanded to "Saint Clair" if city documents and other official sources do not expand it. Please see https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk-ca/2019-March/009179.html for the message including some reasoning and examples, and follow links in https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk-ca/2019-March/thread.html#9179 for responses. Please feel free to respond on the mailing list or here, I can forward your comments here to mailing list if you wish.

Thanks. --Jarek Piórkowski (talk) 17:33, 15 March 2019 (UTC)

Louth Streets

Please somebody fix all the Louth Streets. Jidanni (talk) 14:37, 3 October 2022 (UTC)