tags that are more in line with overall OSM taxonomy and
traditions?
Thanks for any clarification.
Laura
Laura O’Grady
la...@lauraogrady.ca <mailto:la...@lauraogrady.ca>
From: Michael [mailto:ohr...@gmail.com]
Sent: June-15-16 6:23 AM
To: hot@openstreetmap.org
Subject:
What I usually use is highway=unclassified / surface=unpaved.
Polyglot
2016-06-15 19:14 GMT+02:00 Paul Norman :
> On 6/15/2016 3:22 AM, Michael wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Here the word 'unclassified' is pretty misleading as well. For some
>> reason 'highway=unclassified' does not mean that the road i
On 6/15/2016 3:22 AM, Michael wrote:
Hi,
Here the word 'unclassified' is pretty misleading as well. For some
reason 'highway=unclassified' does not mean that the road is not
classified at all but does not have any special classification. In
other words it is something like "other road" or any
Hi,
as I have struggled with this myself in the past I would like to comment
from my point of view:
2016-06-14 23:51 GMT+02:00 Alex Bogedain :
> In terms of the Unclassified/Tracks/Paths debate, in these rural areas
> especially, I believe tracks should almost always win out.
>
I am afraid that
Hello All,
I am one of Chad Blevins' interns, and have been one of the more vocal ones
about being in disagreement with the Wiki and would like to do my part to
rationalize out why I am thinking this way.
In terms of the Unclassified/Tracks/Paths debate, in these rural areas
especially, I believe
First you are using OpenStreetMap and so anything can be tagged any
value no ifs no but about it.
Second when you view OSM you are never looking at the raw database. You
are looking at what a rendering system shows. On my machine JOSM shows
unclassified and residential in different colours.
Thanks Suzan.
Andy
On Tuesday, 14 June 2016, 7:50, Suzan Reed wrote:
The phrase “mainly by pedestrians” can mean a path can also be use by a car,
horses, or a motorbike as well.
A mapper has to use good judgment, hopefully based on well written, clear and
complete instructions, and
The phrase “mainly by pedestrians” can mean a path can also be use by a car,
horses, or a motorbike as well.
A mapper has to use good judgment, hopefully based on well written, clear and
complete instructions, and in this case, the Africa wiki. If the instructions
aren’t clear, it just takes m
It says on the highway tag Africa wiki for highway=path "Paths not large enough
for cars and mainly for pedestrians".I take your point about motorbikes Suzan
but how do you tell from the image that a path sized way is being used as a
road? would you go by density of buildings?
On Monday,
>so limiting to a certain size vehicle is putting too much of a restriction
on mapping in Africa, in my opinion.
and I think that was the conclusion of the people who created the African
Highway wiki, if the highway is wide enough for two trucks side by side you
can guess its not a path, but other
In some rural areas people have a lot of different vehicles for transport. Some
adapt motorbikes with cargo carriers making them into little trucks and
motorbikes can be loaded in various ways and are used as transport, and these
can travel on many tracks and minor/unclassified roads, so limitin
Hello there, Should the limit for a road perhaps be the width of a vehicle and
under for a path? (A Land Rover's roughly 2m wide). There's a scale on JOSM and
ID. Couldn't see one on Potlatch.
Andy
On Monday, 13 June 2016, 17:48, Chad Blevins wrote:
Hi John,
You're absolutely correct
Hi John,
You're absolutely correct. When Courtney and I created the Mozambique
Tracing Guide the original tasks were urban focused, and the scope has
changed to rural areas. Currently a group of interns are mapping those
districts and I've had several inquiries about road classifications. The
g
OSM has its roots in the UK and Germany, in the UK highways are classified
A, B, I think even C and other very minor roads were labelled unclassified
by Ordnance Survey historically so that is where the term comes from. The
UK Ordnance Survey was historically important in creating everyday maps.
> ‘trunk road’.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Specifically, I think all road classification is only as good as the
>>> local community, because often you can’t tell ‘significance’ or function
>>> without local knowledge.
>>>
>>>
>>
nity, because often you can’t tell ‘significance’ or function
>> without local knowledge.
>>
>>
>>
>> =Russ
>>
>>
>>
>> *From:* john whelan [mailto:jwhelan0...@gmail.com]
>> *Sent:* Sunday, June 12, 2016 7:21 AM
>> *To:* hot@openstreetma
> Specifically, I think all road classification is only as good as the local
> community, because often you can’t tell ‘significance’ or function without
> local knowledge.
>
>
>
> =Russ
>
>
>
> *From:* john whelan [mailto:jwhelan0...@gmail.com]
> *Sent:* Sunday
often you can’t tell ‘significance’ or function without
local knowledge.
=Russ
From: john whelan [mailto:jwhelan0...@gmail.com]
Sent: Sunday, June 12, 2016 7:21 AM
To: hot@openstreetmap.org
Subject: [HOT] Highway=residential in Africa
When validating I'm seeing a large numb
When validating I'm seeing a large number of highways in rural areas tagged
as highway=residential rather than highway=unclassified mainly by new
mappers in maperthons but even one or two project managers are using this
designation and I'm not sure why.
My expectation is a few highways within a la
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