Hi Dave thanks for that - its very helpful I love maps and don’t mind it being slow - its very interesting studying the areas is such detail!!! I’ll make a note of your tag advice and follow it - i will have to go back and edit /delete a few ;) thanks again c. > On 3 Feb 2015, at 22:59, Dave Corley <davecor...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi Caroline, > > How I typically tag is as follows > > - housing estates - highway=residential > - rural roads (lower than secondary) - highway=unclassified > - driveway to a house - highway=service + service=driveway. > - forestry roads with no exit - highway=service > - forestry road with through access - highway=unclassified or higher > - bog road's - highway=service where the surface looks good from imagery > after which I change to highway=track + tracktype=grade (1-5) > > Note, I rarely map driveways unless they are special in some way e.g. > Driveway up to a stately Manor or something similar > > As for buildings, in the context of townland mapping, I'm only mapping > significant buildings e.g. schools, chuches, GAA grounds, etc. Its a whole > other project to map all the buildings > > It's worth keeping in mind, especially around Kerry that a lot of the > mapping in that area has been done by tourists so their grading of our > highways would be based on the roads where they are from. So for someone > from say Germany, anything with grass growing up the middle of it is a > track but we would map it as unclassified. > > And yes, its slow going but many hands make light work. As it can seem > endless, it's a good idea to have a goal when you sit down to map. > Sometimes I'll take my lunch break at my desk and aim to map a specific > housing estate during that 30 mins. I often won't get it done but it gives > me something to come back to the next day to finish off. > > Simply do what you can, when you can, and aim to keep your local area up to > date. Anything else is a bonus > > Dave > On 3 Feb 2015 22:26, "Caroline Lewis" <carolinele...@eircom.net> wrote: > >> Hi - i am correcting in josm and am confused by the highway tags - in cork >> highways leading to houses were all tagged as tracks but in the kerry >> section there are residential, service, unclassified and tracks >> which tag should i use and when? >> also do i need to draw in buildings or should i just get highways/streams >> done? >> its v. slow work!!! >> thanks >> c. >> >> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Talk-ie mailing list >> Talk-ie@openstreetmap.org >> https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ie >> > _______________________________________________ > Talk-ie mailing list > Talk-ie@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ie
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