Hi guys, Just adding in the OSM africa mailing list... Jorieke 2017-11-15 14:15 GMT+00:00 Jean-Marc Liotier <j...@liotier.org>:
> On Tue, 14 Nov 2017 21:26:02 +0000 (UTC) > Pierre Béland <pierz...@yahoo.fr> wrote: > > > > I we follow the Highway Tag Africa wiki page I initiated in 2013, > > narrow highways should be evaluaed on the type of traffic possible - > > highway= residential in residential areas if at least passable by 4 > > wheels- highway=path if only motorcycles, bicyles and foot traffic is > > possible. https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Highway_Tag_Africa > > I second Pierre's reference to the Highway Tag Africa. Residential > streets mapped as highway=service an all too common error in African > cities. > > Same problem here as for highway=living_street - a conversation we had > a year ago: > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk/2016- > December/thread.html#77191 > > Mappers from more developed countries expect a residential street to > look like their idea of a residential street - for example the lack > of sidewalks confuses them... But it is a residential road nevertheless. > > I'm partial to always using surface=* but maybe sidewalk=no will also > help make confused residential mappers happier with tagging a six-meter > wide sandy residential street with no sidewalk as > highway=residential... (I just wrote that and realize I wrote almost > the same thing last year... I'm getting old > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk/2016-December/077195.html) > > _______________________________________________ > talk mailing list > talk@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk >
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