from https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/be.html
total: 154,012 km paved: 120,514 km (includes 1,756 km of expressways) unpaved: 33,498 km (2010) Mapbox: 111,684 km https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/nl.html total: 138,641 km (includes 3,530 km of expressways) (2014) - no mention of unpaved roads there It might be the unpaved part, should be investigated further for other countries. m On Fri, Nov 20, 2015 at 9:51 AM, Marc Gemis <marc.ge...@gmail.com> wrote: > 100% in Germany, The Netherlands, Luxembourg as well. Wonder why the > CIA thinks there are so many hidden roads in Belgium :-) > Or (more seriously) why the definition of road would be different for > Belgium compare to the other countries. > > I cannot tell for Bolivia, but the Belgian roads are similar to other > Western European countries, so I would expect the CIA to use the same > definition there. > > On the blog that was mentioned, you find a twitter address to contact > the Mapbox people. Maybe they can help ? > > regards > > m > > > On Fri, Nov 20, 2015 at 9:30 AM, joost schouppe > <joost.schou...@gmail.com> wrote: >> I think in the CIA's imagination :) >> >> Huge differences like that, I'm afraid it says more about the differences of >> the definition of what consists of a motor road. For instance, I know the >> road network in OSM Bolivia to be far from complete as to smaller motor >> roads, but it's way over 100% of the CIA number. So they probably only took >> the main road network as a measure. Meanwhile, OSM is mapping roads that no >> other map has ever mapped :) >> >> 2015-11-20 9:00 GMT+01:00 eMerzh <merz...@gmail.com>: >>> >>> Interesting.... thanks for the link .... >>> >>> but it seems surprising no? >>> France is at 100% and us at 73? ... it's kind of low no? any idea where >>> those road are? >>> >>> 2015-11-20 6:52 GMT+01:00 Marc Gemis <marc.ge...@gmail.com>: >>>> >>>> Mapbox made a tool [1] to see how complete the road networks in a >>>> country are. Belgium got a 73% >>>> They blogged about it in [2] >>>> >>>> >>>> regards >>>> >>>> >>>> m >>>> >>>> >>>> [1] https://www.mapbox.com/data-platform/country/#belgium >>>> [2] https://www.mapbox.com/blog/how-complete-is-openstreetmap/ >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> Talk-be mailing list >>>> Talk-be@openstreetmap.org >>>> https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-be >>> >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Talk-be mailing list >>> Talk-be@openstreetmap.org >>> https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-be >>> >> >> >> >> -- >> Joost @ >> Openstreetmap | Twitter | LinkedIn | Meetup | Reddit | Wordpress >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Talk-be mailing list >> Talk-be@openstreetmap.org >> https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-be >> _______________________________________________ Talk-be mailing list Talk-be@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-be
