Let me just remind that whatever comes up as a consensus please add them in the wiki: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/WikiProject_Philippines/Mapping_conventions
Excellent discussion btw. On Sat, Jan 23, 2010 at 6:41 AM, Ray <rayosm1...@yahoo.com> wrote: > Hi, > >> Reviewing the map reveals that many places roads seems to have too high >> of a classification, misleading people to use roads that are not meant >> for a lot of traffic. >> >> From an overall perspective the classification of roads should be used >> to guide people which roads to prefer. > > +1 > I'm also in favor of tagging the roads after their properties and how > good you can travel on them. Eugine explained it very well. > > When i can recognize a better type on the images than "road" i'll change > it for nearly the same reasons Ian pointed out. > > For residential vs. unclassified: a road (or part of) which doesn't have > [a couple of] houses is IMHO unclassified. Maybe you can describe > residential as an special form of unclassified (i.g. not tertiary). > There are houses around so expect slow driving cos of parking cars and > people walking around. > > When someone traces a new road from images and don't know what kind of > road it is he should follow the legal classification. Later someone with > local knowledge can retag the road / split it up. On the satellite > images you can also see how much houses are around, so residential > should be easy. > >> Assuming that all motorway, trunk, primary, secondary and tertiary roads >> have been mapped long ago, newbies should only be concerned with the >> lower classes of roads. >> >> I suggest the out come of this discussion will be a series of photos of >> typical roads and how to tag them. >> >> I have started a document already for this purpose so this discussion is >> very welcome :-) >> >> http://idisk.mac.com/michael.riber//Public/osmph/Road Types 0.0.doc > > A guide with pictures is a great idea. Looking at the list, i would use > footway for roads / tracks to narrow for cars. Or highway=path and foot > / bicycle = yes if this matters. > Pedestrian is "For town centres and civic areas, where wide expanses of > hard surface are provided for pedestrians to walk (often between > shops)." (Wiki) > > As maning said, we need to get more use of track and tracktype. Can you > include this in your document? > > I suggest also that we make use of surface and lane keys. > surface=paved/unpaved/compacted will be important for rural roads and > navigation. > > Ray > > > _______________________________________________ > talk-ph mailing list > talk-ph@openstreetmap.org > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ph > -- cheers, maning ------------------------------------------------------ "Freedom is still the most radical idea of all" -N.Branden wiki: http://esambale.wikispaces.com/ blog: http://epsg4253.wordpress.com/ ------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ talk-ph mailing list talk-ph@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ph
