Re: [Talk-in] classification for rural roads

2015-03-28 Thread Sunil K
One peculiar problem I faced while mapping in kerala is the villages are spread out, there are usually no village centers. Also many cases there is no hard boundary to separate two panchayths or even districts. Yes, there are hard boundaries for administrative purpose, but for most practical p

Re: [Talk-in] classification for rural roads

2015-03-28 Thread I Chengappa
If the roads you are mapping connect two villages / local population centres, then it should be sufficient to tag them as tertiary roads, (with the lane number information if you have it). That usage reflects the original meaning outside OSM of 'tertiary road', (similarly secondary roads connected

Re: [Talk-in] India Postal Map

2015-03-28 Thread GN
On 03/28/2015 12:21 PM, Yogesh योगि wrote: > On Friday 27 March 2015 01:16 PM, Arun Ganesh wrote: >> There is a lot of pincode data for major towns and villages in India >> hidden in the postal_code tag like this >> http://www.openstreetmap.org/node/340748436 >> >> Most of this data comes from the

[Talk-in] classification for rural roads

2015-03-28 Thread Nura Uttelamiak
Hi, I have been trying to map some of the roads around my area. I have seen quite a few types of roads around here. 1) Asphalted roads that are wide enough just for a single car/small truck. There are no shoulders to these kind of roads and the road boundaries are usually hard walls built around

Re: [Talk-in] India Postal Map

2015-03-28 Thread Yogesh योगि
On Friday 27 March 2015 01:49 PM, Sajjad Anwar wrote: > Hey everyone, > > Arun and I have been working several PIN code sets. There are a lot of > stuff that we can use and I'm going compile a nationwide list with > coordinates. Will be interesting to see all those places which have same pincodes.

Re: [Talk-in] India Postal Map

2015-03-28 Thread Yogesh योगि
On Friday 27 March 2015 01:29 PM, Ishan Chattopadhyaya wrote: > I like this dataset from the opendata portal, > https://data.gov.in/catalog/all-india-pincode-directory > > Has very useful information of Indian post offices. I could put Head Post offices and Branch Post offices data with extracted K