Proposed Tagging Standard for Bangladesh

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Highway Based On RHD/LGED/LGI Classification

List of roads in Bangladesh

All Tags are based on ROAD PAVMENT DESIGN MENUAL 1999, Pavement Design Catalogue 2003, Road Design Standards 2004, Road Design Standards Rural Roads 2005, Planning Guidelines for Rural Road Master Plan 2010, Maintenance Guidelines for Rural Road 2010

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RHD/LGED/LGI Classification	Government Definition	OSM Tag	OSM Definition
AH	Highways connecting National capital with Divisional HQs or seaports or land ports or Asian Highway	highway=motorway	A restricted access major divided highway, normally with 2 or more running lanes plus emergency hard shoulder. Equivalent to the Freeway, Autobahn, etc.
N	Highways connecting National capital with Divisional HQs or sea ports or land ports	highway=trunk	The most important roads in a country's system that aren't motorways. (Need not necessarily be a divided highway.)
R	Highways connecting District HQs or main river or land ports or with each other not connected by national Highways.	highway=primary	The next most important roads in a country's system. (Often link larger towns.)
Z	Roads connecting District HQ/s with Upazila HQ/s or connecting one Upazila HQ to another Upazila HQ by a single main connection with National/Regional Highway, through shortest distance/ route.	highway=secondary	The next most important roads in a country's system. (Often link towns.)
B,R1	Roads connecting Upazila HQ/s with Growth Center/s or one Growth Center with another Growth Center by a single main connection or connecting Growth Center to Higher Road System, Through shortest distance/route.(Former Feeder Road Type-B) Roads connecting union HQ/s with Upazila HQs, Growth Centers or local markets or with each other. (Former Rural Road Class-1 (R1)	highway=tertiary	The next most important roads in a country's system. (Often link smaller towns and villages)
R2,R3	Roads connecting Villages with Union HQs, local markets, farms and ghats or with each other. (Former Rural Road Class-2 (R2) Roads within a Village. (Former Rural Road Class-3 (R3)	highway=unclassified	The least important through roads in a country's system – i.e. minor roads of a lower classification than tertiary, but which serve a purpose other than access to properties. (Often link villages and hamlets.)

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Others road types

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Building

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Key	Value	Comment
Tags for individual houses
addr:housenumber	user defined	The house number (may contain letters, dashes or other characters). Addresses describes ways to tag a single building with multiple addresses. Please do not only tag `addr:housenumber=`, but also add at least `addr:street=` or `addr:place=*` for places without streets (or map the belonging to a street with a relation using associatedStreet relation or street relation.)
addr:housename	user defined	The name of a house. This is sometimes used in some countries like England, Spain, Portugal, Latvia instead of (or in addition to) a house number.
addr:flats	user defined	The unit numbers (a range or a list) of the flats or apartments located behind a single entrance door.
addr:conscriptionnumber	user defined	This special kind of housenumber relates to a settlement instead of a street. Conscription numbers were introduced in the Austro-Hungarian Empire and are still in use in some parts of Europe, sometimes together with street-related housenumbers which are also called orientation numbers.
addr:street	user defined	The name of the respective street. If the street name is very long or nonexistent, the ref of the respective street. A way with `highway=` or a square with `place=square` and the corresponding name should be found nearby. The belonging to a street can alternatively be represented by a associatedStreet relation or street relation. The keys `addr:housenumber=` and `addr:street=` in principle are the only necessary ones if there are valid border polygons. If you are not sure if it is so, just add `addr:city=`, `addr:postcode=` and `addr:country=`.
addr:place	user defined	This is part of an address which refers to the name of some territorial zone (usually a `place=` like island, square or very small village) instead of a street (`highway=`). Should not be used together with `addr:street=*`.
addr:postcode	user defined	The postal code of the building/area. Some mappers prefer to rely on `boundary=postal_code`
addr:city	user defined	The name of the city as given in postal addresses of the building/area. (In some places the city in the address corresponds to the post office that serves the area rather than the actual city, if any, in which the building is located.) Some mappers assume it can be derived from a boundary=administrative relation.
addr:country	user defined	The ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 two letter country code in upper case. Example: "DE" for Germany, "CH" for Switzerland, "AT" for Austria, "FR" for France, "IT" for Italy. Caveat: The ISO 3166-1 code for Great Britain is "GB" and not "UK". More or less favoured in different national communities.
addr:postbox	user defined	Use this for addressing postal service Post Office Box (PO Box, BP - Boîte Postale, CP - Case Postale, Поштански преградак, Поштански фах, Поштански претинац) as alternative to addressing using street names. Example: "PO Box 34"
addr:full	user defined	Use this for a full-text, often multi-line, address if you find the structured address fields unsuitable for denoting the address of this particular location. Examples: "Fifth house on the left after the village oak, Smalltown, Smallcountry", or addresses using special delivery names or codes (possibly via an unrelated city name and post code), or PO Boxes. Beware that these strings can hardly be parsed by software: "1200 West Sunset Boulevard Suite 110A" is still better represented as `addr:housenumber=1200` + `addr:street=West Sunset Boulevard` + `addr:unit=110A`.
For countries using hamlet, subdistrict, district, province, state, county
addr:hamlet	user defined	The hamlet of the object. In France, some addresses use hamlets instead of street names, use the generic addr:place instead.
addr:suburb	user defined	If an address exists several times in a city. You have to add the name of the settlement. See Australian definition of suburb.
addr:subdistrict	user defined	The subdistrict of the object.
addr:district	user defined	The district of the object.
addr:province	user defined	The province of the object. For Canada, uppercase two-letter postal abbreviations (BC, AB, ON, QC, etc.) are used. In Russia a synonym {{{key:addr:region}}} is widely used
addr:state	user defined	The state of the object. For the US, uppercase two-letter postal abbreviations (AK, CA, HI, NY, TX, WY, etc.) are used.
addr:county	user defined	The county of the object.
Tags for interpolation ways
addr:interpolation	all/even/odd/ alphabetic	How to interpolate the house numbers belonging to the way along the respective street. See detailed description.
addr:interpolation	Number n	Every nth house between the end nodes is represented by the interpolation way.
addr:inclusion	actual/estimate/potential	Optional tag to indicate the accuracy level of survey used to create the address interpolation way. See detailed description.