Ukundji Thank you for you comments, yes Ethiopia needs to have an OSM restart. For the last 10 months I was living in SNNPR and was not able to meet a single OSM contributor. The infrastructure, unfortunately, makes OSM contributions and even use very difficult. Ethiopians would be very interested in getting OSMAnd on their phones, however, it appears to be a restricted app.
In terms of paths to Ethiopian villages it is indeed the case that the primary or only transportation route to a population may only be by foot or donkey traffic on a path. I think the perception that a path is not important is quite common and is not true. Important or significant paths need to be mapped for commerce, food safety, and potential relief efforts, not only in Ethiopia but in other parts of Africa and places throughout the world. The discussion about importance <http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_Features/Importance> doesn't seem to have moved forward but could have some value. At SOTM Africa earlier this month there was quite a bit of discussion on highway tags, including paths. Based on that discussion I have updated the Africa Highway Tagging guide <http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Highway_Tag_Africa> to help clarify that a road has not only a construction class as well as an economic or social function. Regards Emmor (Palolo <http://hdyc.neis-one.org/?Palolo>) On Sat, Jul 29, 2017 at 10:53 AM, Jens Mueller (Historical Research Services) <h...@hist.de> wrote: > Hi! > > I hope that you do not mind if I “jump into” your interesting and very > important discussion. > > I have had problems with the defintion of “unclassified roads” and “paths”. > Based on your defintion any roads which are not accessable by 4x4 wheel > cars should be tagged as “path” (or as “tracks” if they only connect to > agricultural places), even if they are the only roads which connect > settlements. Is this correct? > > Please take a short look (if you do not mind and have the time to do so) > at a “OSM forum” discussion two years ago. > I mapped in Ethiopia mainly oin the municipality of “Yemezegn”. > There are several roads of different sizes there, as decribed in my > posting. > > A native Ethiopian did in-depth research in that area for his master > thesis and stated: > “According to the observation data, two Kebeles namely Yemezegn and > Gibtsawit are inaccessable by vehicles and hence, do not have easy access > to public transport.” > And it seems as if he meant inaccesable by all (normal, including 4x4) > vehicles. > If this is indeed true, should all roads be tagged as paths? > https://forum.openstreetmap.org/viewtopic.php?id=54917 > > Any help and ideas would be greatly appreciated after this would help me a > lot for other mapping projects in Ethiopia and DR Congo (near the Lake > Tanganyika, where a lot of settlements only have access by vehicles via the > Lake). > > Thank you. > > Kind Regards, > > Ukundji > > > *From:* john whelan <jwhelan0...@gmail.com> > *Sent:* Saturday, July 29, 2017 1:38 AM > *To:* hot@openstreetmap.org > *Subject:* [HOT] Highway Tag Africa wiki > > I seem to recall some one posting recently that following discussion at > the SOTM Africa in Uganda 2017 some changes had been made to the wiki. > > Could some one highlight these. > > Thanks John > > ------------------------------ > _______________________________________________ > HOT mailing list > HOT@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot > > > _______________________________________________ > HOT mailing list > HOT@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot > >
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