Forum:Ingerland/Transport
Here's a rambling set of questions for Ingerland mappers to try and start discussion on transport where country-wide decisions need to be made. I'm sure there are things I haven't thought of, so please add them in. -- Pawl (talk) 08:40, 4 May 2024 (UTC)
Roads
How do we intend to classify and number our roads? Are we going to follow the British designation system of M (motorway), A and B roads, or perhaps use different letters, e.g. M (Motorway), P (primary), and S (secondary), and maybe T (trunk)?
At the moment, mainly because of legacy mapping, we have a bit of a mixture of road types and designations. There are motorways designated as M, N or S, "A" is used with all types from motorway to tertiary, there are Bs and BWs (secondary), "C" tertiary, and "F" primary roads.
How do we number them? Will we do something like the British system, where the country is divided into zones each with numbers beginning with a particular digit?
Who allocates the numbers? Shall we keep a register where we log road numbers as we assign them, to prevent duplication?
Can we collectively lay out the major roads network? This would involve deciding where roads enter and leave vacant territories, which would commit future mappers of those territories to working with what has already been decided.
- Not a project member, but as somebody who lives in the UK... I think the M/trunk/A/B designations and the radial road numbering zones are a very strong unique flavour to UK mapping, and doing something else here would really serve to dilute the commonality. I think either a single or dual radial setup would work well. Depends if UL10x should be included. Thanks/wangi (talk) 14:56, 8 May 2024 (UTC)
Railways
Are the railways nationalized or run by private companies?
Did Ingerland have a rail network as extensive as pre-1960s Britain, and did it go through a major Beeching-like reduction? (i.e. should there be a lot of evidence of closed railway lines and stations on the map?).
Can we collectively lay out the major rail network? This would involve deciding where roads enter and leave vacant territories, which would commit future mappers of those territories to working with what has already been decided.
Air
I presume the major airport(s) will be in the capital region but we can all create provincial airports where we like. Is there anything we need to decide collectively?