[HOT] weeklyOSM #454 2019-03-26-2019-04-01

The weekly round-up of OSM news, issue # 454, is now available online in English, giving as always a summary of all things happening in the openstreetmap world: http://www.weeklyosm.eu/en/archives/11846/ Enjoy! Did you know that you can also submit messages for the weeklyOSM? Just log in to ht

Re: [HOT] [hotosm-membership] Nominations open for new HOT voting members !

Hi all, just to follow up on Nathalie's emails from during the week. The new member election process is documented here [1] . Let us know if you have any questions. Also, for those that are putting th

Re: [HOT] Thank you from MSF!

Dear all, I am new to this HOT interface on OSM, but joined last week, and interested in road classification in OSM. This is my first posting, and first time I have engaged with anyone on OSM, so am still getting up to speed. "Road Classification" is an important topic for roads agencies, it he

Re: [HOT] Thank you from MSF!

On 4/7/19 6:59 PM, Kevin McPherson via HOT wrote: road network classification in OSM is never quite the same as that used by the Roads Agency, and there are discrepancies between the "official" data of the roads agency, and the OSM definition. This causes confusion to anyone who wants accurate

Re: [HOT] Thank you from MSF!

Generally speaking HOT mappers are armchair mappers so what they map is what they see on a satellite image. Most instructions these days say tag highways between settlements as unclassified. There are some old mappings that show highway=track for these although over time these are being retagged.

Re: [HOT] Thank you from MSF!

Walker, thank you for that. It's an interesting approach, and in fact I've just had someone else suggest use of "ref". Would be interesting to see how many others have used this approach, will keep you posted. Best regards, Kevin On Sunday, April 7, 2019, 6:11:16 PM GMT+1, Walker Kosmidou-

Re: [HOT] Thank you from MSF!

Many thanks,I've had other communications suggesting this too, interested in seeing how other countries are doing this, and whether there is any consistency. On Sunday, April 7, 2019, 6:18:52 PM GMT+1, Jean-Marc Liotier wrote: On 4/7/19 6:59 PM, Kevin McPherson via HOT wrote: roa

Re: [HOT] Thank you from MSF!

Hello Kevin, the wiki is always a good resource. There are project pages for many countries which contain tagging guidelines inluding a translation from official classification to OSM classification, e.g.: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/WikiProject_India  => https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/w

Re: [HOT] Thank you from MSF!

Some countries in Africa have their own tagging Standards https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Namibian_Tagging_Standards https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/South_African_Tagging_Guidelines I think we should  encourage all local communities to develop their own guidelines For national  road re