That seems very sensible. Thanks John
On 14 November 2017 at 16:26, Pierre Béland <pierz...@yahoo.fr> wrote: > I we follow the Highway Tag Africa wiki page I initiated in 2013, narrow > highways should be evaluaed on the type of traffic possible > - highway= residential in residential areas if at least passable by 4 > wheels > - highway=path if only motorcycles, bicyles and foot traffic is possible. > > https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Highway_Tag_Africa > > The additions made to the wiki page a few months ago about the width add > confusion. I think that we should simply move this in a separate section > giving guidance on possible widths that represent the various types of > highways. > > regard > > Pierre > > > Le mardi 14 novembre 2017 16:14:22 HNE, john whelan <jwhelan0...@gmail.com> > a écrit : > > > I'm not even sure if this is the best place to raise this but Africa > covers a lot of countries. > > We have some agreement on how to map highways in general Africa but narrow > residential highways are a problem. I suspect highway=residential plus a > width tag might be best. > > South Africa I think has local mappers who able to resolve any problems > but for the rest of Africa given the large number of armchair mappers > mapping there some guidance would be nice. > > Some mappers use highway=service generously. > > Is it possible to reach some sort of general concenus? > > Thoughts? > > Thanks John > _______________________________________________ > talk mailing list > talk@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk >
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