User:TagaSanPedroAko/Philippines Tagging/Roads

This section shows appropriate tagging for roads.

Road classification (revised version of Ian Lopez's tagging scheme for roads)

Name	Description	Examples	Picture	Speed (in kilometers per hour/kph)
Motorway	Expressways			60 (minimum); 80 (maximum for trucks and buses); 100 (maximum)
Motorway link	Expressway entrance and exit ramps, usually with toll gates.			40 (if legal, tag as maxspeed=*)(if advisory, tag as maxspeed:advisory=*
Trunk	Primary national roads and major urban thoroughfares connecting major cities and administrative areas. Urban areas: typically four-lane roads with a white center line or divided multi-lane roads with a center island. Rural trunk roads may range from two-lane roads to four-lane roads, sometimes the two added lanes are former shoulders.			40-80 (unless signed)
Trunk link	Ramps on non-expressway grade roads, slip roads between roads of the same type or below (primary, secondary, tertiary, etc.), and U-turn slots
Primary	Primary national highways (or sections of) not listed as parts of the core network			40-60 (unless signed)
Primary link	Ramps on roads that does not serve the function of a trunk road, slip roads between roads of the same type or lower (secondary, tertiary, unclassified, etc), and U-turn slots			40-60 (unless signed)
Secondary	Secondary importance roads usually connecting barangays with the city/town center.			30-60
Tertiary	Tertiary-importance roads usually serving a barangay or residential area and mostly lined with houses. Collector roads on a populated area.			20-40
Unclassified	Roads usually serving through traffic on industrial or commercial areas. May occur on rural areas as a less important road on a barangay, usually paralleling a road tagged with highway=tertiary.			20-40
Residential	Roads on residential areas.			20 (unless signed)
Service	Parking lot roads. Roads around malls, industrial areas, or commercial areas, unless it serves as a through route.

The simple guide

• Motorway:
  • Expressways
• Trunk:
  • Routes 1-11 (backbone national roads, with exceptions listed below)
  • Route 51, 52, 53, 54, 55 (except portion in Dagupan bypassed by Route 241 and De Venecia Avenue), 56, 57, 58, 59, 60, 61, 62 (Bacoor-Kawit section only), 64, 65 (except section in Carmona bypassed by Route 651), 66, 68, 69, 70 ,75, 76, 78, 79, 80, and 81
  • Secondary national roads (or segments of) constituting part of the Strong Republic National Highway routes, or those part of the provincial strategic highway systems.
• Primary:
  • All primary and secondary national roads that are not part of the backbone network and the
  • Tertiary national roads that are major arteries (connects other municipality and complements the trunk highway network).
• Secondary
  • Tertiary national roads, if it mostly used as a minor artery (complements
  • Provincial roads
  • All city/municipally-maintained roads that function as arterials
• Tertiary
  • Major barangay roads
• Unclassified
  • All other through roads that are of minor importance

Access details (revised)

Name	Description	Examples
access=permissive	Roads that permit outside traffic unconditionally.	Roads on some subdivisions. Drive-thru of fast-food restaurants.
access=private	Roads leading to a private house/lot and usually dead-end	Roads running through privately owned land, usually marked with No Trespassing signs.
access=destination	Roads only allowing local traffic (bound for the destination, usually with conditions for outsiders)	Roads on private subdivisions/residential areas, where a sticker is required for access, unless one is a short-period visitor.
toll=yes	Payment is needed for using a road, either by card, ticket, toll barrier, or electronic collection, as in toll roads.	All expressways in the Philippines. Not all segments are tolled, like the South Luzon Expressway between Calamba toll plaza and Ayala Greenfield toll plaza. Others have barriers or toll plazas on the entrances only, like the portion of the North Luzon Expressway between Balintawak toll plaza and Bocaue Exit. Do not tag exit ramps without toll gates with toll=yes, and only tag the main expressway and the entrances.

Road route relations

Routes of national roads maintained/designated by the Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) should be named on the name designated (if the route number represents the whole road route) or, in case, the route number (if route number is divided into differently named roads, e.g. N 120 in Metro Manila). Tertiary roads are to have their relations, unless the designated name matches the signed or local names.

Tag	Description	Examples/tags
name	The route number, in the format E[number] or Route [number]. Add a name in parentheses if the whole route has one known name.	E2, Route 1, Route 65, Route 420 (Santa Rosa - Ulat - Tagaytay Road),
ref	The signed number of the route.	1, 65, 120, E2
network	The route system where the road belongs. For the national highways in the Philippines, the network is the National Highway Network (NHN).	PH:nhn
nhn:class	The classification of the road by the Department of Public Works and Highways.	primary; secondary; tertiary
route	The type of road

See User:TagaSanPedroAko/Philippines_Tagging/Roads/Numbered routes for progress on mapping of numbered routes