EPI-USE StationeryHi Rickus As far as I know, you are using "unclassified" correctly. As for the dirt road, I am used to using highway=track. You can use tracktype as a second tag on the feature marked as highway=track to denote how good the surface is (http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:highway%3Dtrack).
highway=road is meant as a temporary tag when you don't know how to classify the road. Another mapper can then come along and tag it correctly. The Map Features page has these definitions (http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Map_Features#Highway). I think the South African Tagging Guidelines page helps for things like M / R / N classifications, but we still need to use the main page for ones that aren't South African specific. Hope this helps. Someone else please correct me if I am wrong with any of this. Regards, Brendan Barrett From: Rickus Viljoen Sent: Wednesday, January 27, 2010 2:05 AM To: talk-za@openstreetmap.org Subject: [OSM-Talk-ZA] South African Tagging Guidelines? Hi I've been looking at the 'SA Tagging Guidelines' page. I'm wondering how I should tag 'dirt roads'. I have seen others in SA have used any of the following... - highway=tertiary or - tracktype=grade2 - highway=road - highway=unclassified Also how should I tag a 'paved/tarred' road that is not an R or M road but that is also not a 'residential' road. Currently I use 'unclassified'. Any comments please and maybe we can update the SA Tagging Guidelines page with a bit more detail. http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/South_African_Tagging_Guidelines Keep up the mapping! Rickus Viljoen -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ Talk-ZA mailing list Talk-ZA@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-za
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