Please clarify: are the Apple mappers 1) changing the ways to highway=track, or 2) changing ways that are currently highway=track to something else?
I would support #2 in any case where the way connects settlements, since we have always defined highway=track as a way that is used for agriculture, forestry etc., not for travel between settlements. – Joseph Eisenberg On Mon, Jun 22, 2020 at 11:17 AM John Whelan <jwhelan0...@gmail.com> wrote: > I've noticed a number of highways being changed in Africa from > unclassified to track and from unclassified to tertiary. The ones I've > noticed are Apple mappers usually with the comment of from Bing and often > the highways connect settlements so should be a minimum of unclassified or > path but not track. > > African highway wiki says it is difficult to classify highways without > local knowledge above unclassified. Track is fairly easy it doesn't > connect settlements according to the wiki. > > Do I get the impression we are talking targets here? The paid mappers > have to do so many edits to meet their targets and changing the > classification using Bing is easier than adding to the map? > > Do we care? Is it is just something to be aware of. > > Thoughts? > > Thanks > > Cheerio John > -- > Sent from Postbox <https://www.postbox-inc.com> > _______________________________________________ > talk mailing list > talk@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk >
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