Re: [OSM-Talk-ZA] Question about road classifications

2020-08-18 Thread Andrew Wiseman via Talk-ZA
Thanks everyone for the responses, good to know about the M3. It sounds like there isn’t any objection to what was suggested to us about the service vs residential issue, so we’ll follow those suggestions going forward. I can update the wiki page to document that as well, unless someone else wan

Re: [OSM-Talk-ZA] Question about road classifications

2020-08-11 Thread Kieron Thwaites
*"Armchair mapping" is dangerous if you are not properly ground truthing changes and you have not specified the criteria that you are using on imagery to determine whether a road qualifies as a service road or not. I for one do not see the value that changing these tags would add other than shape t

Re: [OSM-Talk-ZA] Question about road classifications

2020-08-11 Thread Gerhardus Geldenhuis
Hi The definition of a service road seems a bit arbitrary even in the official tagging policy mentioned: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:highway One man's service road is another man's narrow residential road. "Armchair mapping" is dangerous if you are not properly ground truthing changes

[OSM-Talk-ZA] Question about road classifications

2020-08-11 Thread Andrew Wiseman via Talk-ZA
Hi everyone, This is Andrew from Apple again. Earlier in the year I emailed about our team working on some road network improvements (https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk-za/2019-January/001248.html) and lately we have had some discussions about road classification around service roa