For the Mali Humanitarian Response in early 2013, the Support Team, we noticed 
that contributors had difficulty to adapt to the reality of this african 
country with roads heavily damaged at rainy season, with street roads and major 
roads that looked like tracks. They had the tendancy to map everything as track 
or road.
We had to inform them on the reality of this african country where road 
infrastructures where completely different ot the road infrastructures the 
contributors knew in their respective countries.
I then created the Mali highway wiki page that later from various discussions 
we renamed Highway_Tag_Africa

This wiki page insist on taking account of the importance of this individual 
road in the country highway network and make distinction between the role of 
this road and the condition of this road.
>From imagery, looking at villages, town and cities, you can evaluate the 
>status of an individual road and tag it appropriately. This is either
- non connecting roads going out of villages to farmlands or forestry areas : 
highway=track- highway=residential for residential ways large enough for cars 
to circulate (not path because this is a dirt road)
- a minor road connecting hamlets and small villages : highway=unclassified- 
you then graduate from the importance of the road highway=[tertiary, secondary, 
primary ...]

We need to adapt to situation of various countries and surely not develop 
classification on roads based only on the reality of the rich countries where 
motorways and paved roads are the norm.  A primary road in Mali, even if this 
is a dirt road highly damaged at rainy season, this is still a primary road. 
Other tags should be used to describe the condition of the road (ie. surface  
smoothness).
And yes, it is better to indicate highway=unclassified + add a fixme then to 
use highway=[road, track] 
 
Pierre 


      De : Aun Johnsen <li...@gimnechiske.org>
 À : tagg...@openstreetmap.org 
Cc : OpenStreetMap <talk@openstreetmap.org>
 Envoyé le : mardi 27 Septembre 2016 9h21
 Objet : Re: [OSM-talk] [Tagging] non-temporary usage of highway=road
  



> On Sep 27, 2016, at 09:00, tagging-requ...@openstreetmap.org wrote:
> 
> Sadly this issue was closed 
> 
> https://github.com/openstreetmap/iD/issues/2742
> 
> -- 
> Holger
> 
There have been quite a few issues and tickets regarding this over a time 
period, with little or no results, that is why I have resolved taking this to 
the list. Seems like asking the developers of the different tools are somewhat 
futile, and we need broader attention on this issue.

Aun Johnsen


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