See my comments inline:
On 21/06/2012 18:30, Jaakko Helleranta.com wrote:
On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 9:29 AM, Big Fat Frog <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
While mapping "Lombok Island" and also validating others' work I've
noticed a recent tendancy for some to double sketch. I've seen
duplicate tags for Mosques right next to each other, I've seen
residential areas traced on top of each other and I've seen roads
traced on top of each other! Are there and computerised processes
adding these features without seeing the human added versions or are
people simply doing stuff
Have you contacted the mapper(s) who are doing the duplication? That's a
good place to start.
No, I wanted to see what the group thought might be happening first. I
don't like targetting anyone unless it's very obvious they've done
something wrong that desperately needs correcting. We're all volunteers
so...
Also, there is a common habit by some to tag "Residential Roads" and
"Living Streets". Please not the differences between the two as
they are quite different, a "Living Street" is not a road people
live on. Maybe this is a English translation issue. A "Residential
Road" is a road with predominately houses on it. A "Living Street"
is a road where no one road user has a priority over others. As far
as I know it is exclusively found in Western cities/towns who
seeking to bring pedestrians and cyclist back into town centres.
Yea. That's what the wiki says. .. We've had some discussion about the
living_street tag usage in Haiti related to discussion on how roads that
are usually crowded by people, merchants, etc (and are not very passable
drive-through roads) should be tagged. The "idea" of the living_street
would feel to match the "situation on the ground" quite well and hence I
and a few others have started (still somewhat limited but growing) use
of the tag here.
To clarify, what I mean is that while there isn't a law that gives
pedestrians right-of-way over vehicles in these roads it's _very_ clear
that vehicles _must_ give way to pedestrians in such ways -- if they
don't want to be thrown rocks at or other inconveniences.
Would there be other sensible solutions to tagging bits of road that
(more or less) clearly match the "ethos" of the living_street (in the
developing world mostly, I'd assume)?
Cheers from Haiti,
-Jaakko
Mmmmm, is Highway=Pedestrian no good for that? or if there are traders
then amenity=marketplace + highway=unclassified? It's very difficult to
take an unstructered environment with no rules and put it into a
database dependant on rules! What you really need is highway=freeforall ;-)
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