[Talk-ca] Tagging for streets on a military base
I am looking at the street tags for CFB Gagetown in Oromocto, New Brunswick. Currently all of the streets are tagged residential. Of course there are some military personnel that live on the base but the majority of the roads I am looking at are not residential: http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=45.8424389362335lon=-66.4528870582581zoom=16 I have considered the following tags: service, minor, and tertiary but none of them seem appropriate. Any suggestions? -- Bernie Connors New Maryland, NB bernie.conn...@unb.ca ___ Talk-ca mailing list Talk-ca@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ca
Re: [Talk-ca] Tagging for streets on a military base
On Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 10:39 AM, Connors, Bernie (SNB) bernie.conn...@snb.ca wrote: I am looking at the street tags for CFB Gagetown in Oromocto, New Brunswick. Currently all of the streets are tagged residential. Of course there are some military personnel that live on the base but the majority of the roads I am looking at are not residential: http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=45.8424389362335lon=-66.4528870582581zoom=16 I have considered the following tags: service, minor, and tertiary but none of them seem appropriate. Any suggestions? highway=unclassified seems right. unclassified is a strange beast in OSM. it comes from the UK official road classification called unclassified, or something. Seems a little weird, but there we are. As a practical matter, I use unclassified for the following. - a shorthand for it's kind of like residential but without the houses - roads of the public road network that are least important but not residential. So, minor commercial/light-industrial area roads. - when the residential / non-residential mix in a mixed use area leans more towards non-residential. I don't have local context for the area you mention, so take my experience with a grain or two of salt. For similar large areas, I would consider residential in the residential areas. unclassified elsewhere. tertiary for those roads that are more important within the area and for entrance / exit roads. And highway=service; (possibly also with service=driveway) for those ways that aren't even roads in the area. Though leaving the driveways and parking areas for somebody else to map is fine too. ;-) And marking the access restrictions either at the gates, or for all roads probably makes sense. Best regards, Richard ___ Talk-ca mailing list Talk-ca@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ca
Re: [Talk-ca] Tagging for streets on a military base
Richard, I looked at CFB Petawawa and CFB Greenwood. The streets amongst the large buildings at Petawawa are all tagged residential. In Greenwood the streets amongst the large buildings are tagged service - but at Greenwood the large buildings are all clustered along the edge of the airfield so the service tag makes more sense. I think your suggestion to use the unclassified tag is the best fit for streets on a military base. Bernie. -- Bernie Connors, P.Eng Service New Brunswick (506) 444-2077 45°56'25.21N, 66°38'53.65W www.snb.ca/geonb/ -Original Message- From: Richard Weait [mailto:rich...@weait.com] Sent: Friday, 2011-04-15 11:51 To: Connors, Bernie (SNB) Cc: Talk-CA OpenStreetMap Subject: Re: [Talk-ca] Tagging for streets on a military base On Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 10:39 AM, Connors, Bernie (SNB) bernie.conn...@snb.ca wrote: I am looking at the street tags for CFB Gagetown in Oromocto, New Brunswick. Currently all of the streets are tagged residential. Of course there are some military personnel that live on the base but the majority of the roads I am looking at are not residential: http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=45.8424389362335lon=-66.4528870582581zoom=16 I have considered the following tags: service, minor, and tertiary but none of them seem appropriate. Any suggestions? highway=unclassified seems right. unclassified is a strange beast in OSM. it comes from the UK official road classification called unclassified, or something. Seems a little weird, but there we are. As a practical matter, I use unclassified for the following. - a shorthand for it's kind of like residential but without the houses - roads of the public road network that are least important but not residential. So, minor commercial/light-industrial area roads. - when the residential / non-residential mix in a mixed use area leans more towards non-residential. I don't have local context for the area you mention, so take my experience with a grain or two of salt. For similar large areas, I would consider residential in the residential areas. unclassified elsewhere. tertiary for those roads that are more important within the area and for entrance / exit roads. And highway=service; (possibly also with service=driveway) for those ways that aren't even roads in the area. Though leaving the driveways and parking areas for somebody else to map is fine too. ;-) And marking the access restrictions either at the gates, or for all roads probably makes sense. Best regards, Richard ___ Talk-ca mailing list Talk-ca@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ca
