This is a general issue with _areas_ where the entire area is potentially 
traversable and would benefit from being tagged as being permissive for 
vehicular traffic. In developed areas, this applies to, for instance, large 
expanses of concrete as in parking lots or tarmacs. Wondering what a general 
solution might be for tagging an expanse as generally traversable as opposed to 
selecting one or another specific path through such a generally traversable 
area. Regards --ceyockey 

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From: "Pierre Béland" <pierz...@yahoo.fr> 
To: "HOT Discussion list" <hot@openstreetmap.org> 
Sent: Saturday, October 25, 2014 5:18:41 PM 
Subject: Re: [HOT] West Africa Ebola Outbreak - Task Manager job for Kayes, 
Mali 


Upon activation for Mali in early 2013, we had had to trace the road network in 
sandy areas. Our African colleagues familiar with these conditions at the rainy 
season where the drivers go in all directions to avoid the ruts , leave traces 
that resemble spaghetti . 

For mapping Kayes , Task 711, I see this same situation. When you trace the 
road netwrok, you need to think about what is important to represent among all 
the traces that you see. If a driver avoids the center of the road and set a 
new trace , then a second, third , etc. or another takes a shortcut , we should 
not represent all these derivations on the map. 

See the example below where the too many traces resembles to spaghetti . Be 
careful and retain what is significant . 

http://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=15/14.5348/-11.4089 

Pierre 



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