On Tue, 2013-04-30 at 16:29 +0700, kristy van putten wrote: > > > ...... has anyone thought of 4WD trails in OSM? I would also be keen > to find out if there are any Ozzy teaching OSM to schools or scout > groups etc?
Kristy, I have a particular interest in 4wd trails and OSM. I am particularly concerned how 4wd roads are recorded and typically displayed. The difficulty is that we all seem to use a range of standards and generally, the rendering people ignore them all. Perhaps not unreasonably. Just before christmas, I lead a bit of a campaing to get some clear standards in place for defining 4wd tracks, the idea being, consistent with OSM guidelines, that highway= be used to signify the purpose of the road and tags such as tracktype= be used to describe the likely state its in. Tracktype= already has grade1 to grade5 but 4wd tracks, needed, IMHO 6,7 and 8. Sadly, while everyone agreed something needed to be done, I did not see enough support for that idea to get past the OSM voting model. It therefore just a recommendation on http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Australian_Roads_Tagging 4wd_only is another option, it is at least official. However, it has only one 'level' and apparently the rendering community don't like tags that begin with a numeral, makes postqress column names messy. Trouble is that much of europe and the US don't really understand 4wd tracks/roads, unless there is a widely used stand way of describing them, the renderers will ignore it, mapers won't see any results and won't bother. The poor old motorist will find themselves in serious trouble every now and again ! David > > > Looking forward to talking to you all > Cheers > > > > > -- > > > Kristy Van Putten > > Spatial Analyst, Data Manager > > Australia-Indonesia Facility Disaster Reduction > > Mb: +62 811 987 573 > > > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-au mailing list > Talk-au@openstreetmap.org > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au _______________________________________________ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au
