Thanks for the response Tasauf, sounds good! I’ll reach out again if we have any questions.
Andrew Andrew Wiseman | Maps | iPhone: +1.202.270.4464 | andrew_wise...@apple.com <mailto:andrew_wise...@apple.com> > On Jan 22, 2020, at 10:45 PM, Tasauf A Baki Billah <tasauf1...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > Dear Andrew, > Thank you for bringing this important topic on the discussion board. Much > appreciated the effort you & your team have been putting on improving > openstreetmap data for quite some time. > > I do agree with your observation on this but we need more discussions before > reaching a more concrete conclusion. > The classification schemes on OSM Bangladesh wiki was drafted in very initial > stage considering the standard highway attribution from the governing body of > highways in Bangladesh RHD. Though for last couple of years we have been > suggesting on trainings & mapathons to consider physical state & use case > while putting the road tags. We are drafting another road tag schema for > Bangladesh & soon will put it on discussion board. For the time being we are > open to any suggestions coming on the way. > > For the specific change-sets you mentioned me personally would suggest to > leave mirpur road as primary Road rather than Trunk. considering the use case > specifically in terms of vehicle types on the road. And offcourse that will > impact the routing especially if you take Speed limit & ETA under > consideration too. > > Would surely love to discuss more on this and hope more good views will be > coming up. > > Cheers! > Tasauf A Baki Billah (Ribin) > Executive Director, Bangladesh Open Innovation Lab (BOIL) > <http://boiledbhoot.org/> > Director, OpenStreetMap Bangladesh Foundation (OSMBDF <http://osmbdf.org/>) > Board Member, Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT). <http://www.hotosm.org/> > Volunteer Coordinator, MissingMaps <http://missingmaps.org/> > Member, OpenStreetMap Foundation. > <https://wiki.osmfoundation.org/wiki/Main_Page> > > Contact: +8801741589653 <>Skype ID: Tasauf A Baki Billah > <https://secure.skype.com/portal/overview> > LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/tasauf1980 > <https://linkedin.com/in/tasauf1980>; > Twitter: https://twitter.com/Tsf1980 <https://twitter.com/Tsf1980> > Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/tasauf.ribin > <https://www.facebook.com/tasauf.ribin>; > Blog: https://tasaufribin.wordpress.com <https://tasaufribin.wordpress.com/>; > https://medium.com/@tasaufabakibillah <https://medium.com/@tasaufabakibillah> > <https://twitter.com/Tsf1980> > > On Thu, Jan 23, 2020 at 4:10 AM Andrew Wiseman via Talk-bd > <talk-bd@openstreetmap.org <mailto:talk-bd@openstreetmap.org>> wrote: > Hello OSM Bangladesh, > > Nice to see a lot of you at SOTM Asia a few months ago! > > I noticed there are some proposals for highway classification schemes on the > OSM Bangladesh wiki page. These proposals define trunk, primary, and > secondary criteria entirely on the Roads and Highway Department (RHD) > classifications from the government. There’s a few improvements to OSM that I > think could be made if more factors are considered, for example: physical > characteristics and overall road importance. Here are some examples of what I > mean: > > • The main routes through Dhaka (such as Mirpur Road) do not have RHD > classifications but should be trunk or primary because they are very > important roads. A member of our team has already made this edit as we think > it is better for routing and for the network overall: > https://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/78863628 > <https://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/78863628> > • The N805 becomes R856 near Gopalganj, but the overall road importance > does not change when it becomes the R856. I think the trunk classification > should continue south to the junction with the N7 here: > https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=17/22.74077792475838/89.63465673326755 > <https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=17/22.74077792475838/89.63465673326755> > > I think using just the RHD classification can make it hard to tell which > roads are more important, and which roads are better for routing. Let me know > what you think. > > Thanks, > > Andrew > > > Andrew Wiseman | Maps | iPhone: +1.202.270.4464 | andrew_wise...@apple.com > <mailto:andrew_wise...@apple.com> > _______________________________________________ > Talk-bd mailing list > Talk-bd@openstreetmap.org <mailto:Talk-bd@openstreetmap.org> > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-bd > <https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-bd>
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