In Lichinga, Niassa, Mozambique
http://www.openstreetmap.org/node/335126704#map=15/-13.3219/35.2649
practically every street is labeled highway=living_street including many
that look quite wide to me. In other parts of the city the same type of
street when viewed in Bing is labeled residential.
2016-12-11 11:55 GMT+01:00 Tobias Zwick :
> These kinds of streets are not only common in old town centers in Europe
> but can be found in any place in the world that hadn't been built with
> cars in mind, in shanty towns and also in modern (non-shanty) towns -
> especially
Which icon is it? I was never very good at icons.
Thanks John
On 11 December 2016 at 07:58, Matthijs Melissen
wrote:
> On 11 December 2016 at 01:15, Jean-Marc Liotier wrote:
> > But participants
> > in the thread were mostly experienced with
On 11 December 2016 at 01:15, Jean-Marc Liotier wrote:
> But participants
> in the thread were mostly experienced with French-speaking Africa - so I
> cannot rule out the existence of a living street legal classification in
> other locales.
At least South Africa seems to have
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> On 11 Dec 2016, at 01:15, Jean-Marc Liotier wrote:
>
> The resulting consensus was that, while unpaved residential streets in Africa
> are living streets in practice
which aspects of living streets? That you may only park in marked parking lots?
That
> from minor ones... Some bright spark took initiative by tagging a large
> part of Dakar's residential streets as highway=service - that has been
> universally perceived as a very bad idea.
Well, there is this line in the wiki for highway=service and service=alley:
"In some medieval European
On 11.12.16 01:15, Jean-Marc Liotier wrote:
On 12/10/2016 08:47 PM, john whelan wrote:
I just did a search on part of Mozambique and came across more than
500 highway=living_street.
I always understood them to be a European concept highway with signs
on the street and a very low max speed.
:* john whelan <jwhelan0...@gmail.com>
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> *Envoyé le :* samedi 10 décembre 2016 20h10
> *Objet :* Re: [OSM-talk] Mozambique's living streets
>
> Legal definition vs."duck typing" - there is a bit of
20h10
Objet : Re: [OSM-talk] Mozambique's living streets
Legal definition vs."duck typing" - there is a bit of both in
Openstreetmap tagging... But because "living street" has a precise legal
definition in Europe, involved mappers chose not to confu
Legal definition vs."duck typing" - there is a bit of both in
Openstreetmap tagging... But because "living street" has a precise legal
definition in Europe, involved mappers chose not to confuse the issue by
using a different one.
Then there was the question of differentiating large
My gut feel is these have been mapped before the African highway wiki
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Highway_Tag_Africa guidelines were
written. One batch was mapped in 2013.
If they were mapped on a HOT project that I was validating I'd probably
switch them to residential unless it was an
On 12/10/2016 08:47 PM, john whelan wrote:
I just did a search on part of Mozambique and came across more than
500 highway=living_street.
I always understood them to be a European concept highway with signs
on the street and a very low max speed. I wouldn't have expected to
see so many
I just did a search on part of Mozambique and came across more than 500
highway=living_street.
I always understood them to be a European concept highway with signs on the
street and a very low max speed. I wouldn't have expected to see so many
clustered together in Mozambique.
Idle curiosity
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