Re: [Tagging] non-temporary usage of highway=road

[Aun Johnsen]

> On Sep 27, 2016, at 09:00, tagging-requ...@openstreetmap.org wrote:
> 
> Sadly this issue was closed 
> 
> https://github.com/openstreetmap/iD/issues/2742
> 
> -- 
> Holger
> 
There have been quite a few issues and tickets regarding this over a time 
period, with little or no results, that is why I have resolved taking this to 
the list. Seems like asking the developers of the different tools are somewhat 
futile, and we need broader attention on this issue.

Aun Johnsen


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Re: [Tagging] non-temporary usage of highway=road

[Holger Jeromin]

Aun Johnsen  Wrote
 in message:
> I see a lot of usage of the generic tag highway=road, which is meant as a 
> temporary tag and a ?low level entry tag? for beginners. The problem with 
> this is that because of its ambiguous meaning, it is impossible for data 
> consumers to process this correctly. 
> 
> i.e., highway=road means anything between a small footway to motorway, so a 
> routing engine might wrongfully send cars down a set of steps or a hiker up a 
> motorway
> 
> As described on the proposal page, this tag is meant to be temporary until 
> more data can be obtained from survey.
> 
> I have now had a few rounds of cleanup of the usage of this tag in Brazil. My 
> cleanup run last year found highway=road that had been unedited for 3 years, 
> so hardly temporary. This year I found several highway=road added by armchair 
> mappers from Europe, and I doubt they ever will travel to the remote areas of 
> Brazil to correct this.
> 
(...) 
> In my opinion, a warning about its temporary state and non-capability with 
> data consumers should be added to the wiki, and it should be removed from the 
> standard presets of all the common editors. Also editors with validation 
> functions should give a warning about the existence of this temporary tag so 
> that it can be dealt with properly by people editing in the areas, and 
> further QA tools should highlight them as items needing attention.
>   
> 

Sadly this issue was closed 

https://github.com/openstreetmap/iD/issues/2742

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Holger


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