Hi, Apologies for the delays. Here's some answers to a few questions. "In some cases of really narrow, hardly visible streets or deep inside a residential area I've used living_street because I assume pedestrians or children playing football use them more often than cars."
Regarding the tags of ways, we've done a great job so far, given the ambiguity of the areas, osm tags, and current situation. As most of you have consistently tagged, a majority of the ways as highway=residential (which is appropriate, mostly houses are very small businesses, run out of the home or as a storefront). However, as discussed in the quoted portion and in this picture http://imgur.com/AuNTC - there are a few ways that are not very wide and deserve more consideration. I did a very rough measurement using the measurement plugin and bing imagery, the one in the examples are ~3.5 meters wide, just wide enough for a smaller car or typical taxi. In my experience in dakar for several months, some of these ways still have cars pass through them, although may or may not receive a little less traffic than other, wider streets that are marked as residential . However, there are also many ways, with different levels of visibility on bing imagery, that aren't wide enough for a car to go through, surrounded by residential buildings (likely the best tag for those, highway=footway. When I first started mapping dakar, I tagged the narrow ways as highway=service. In a few cases that I surveyed in person, I've tagged them as highway=footway. In summary, on the ground surveying would provide the context and information that the bing imagery can't provide so I'm not sure what tags would be most appropriate for these narrower ways without on the ground surveying. I hesistate to use highway=living_street http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Living_street since there aren't (as far as I know) any traffic laws that categorize these narrower ways than from other residential ways. I spoke to one mapper on the ground in Dakar who told me the areas/ways that Harry mentioned in a conversation a couple days ago are used mostly by kids as play areas; so leisure=pitch ? or playground ? (although there's no equipment ?). Lastly, there are some areas that are more floodprone than others. Personally, I would hesistate for others to tag them ([based solely on bing imagery] and think this may be a job most appropriate to those who are on the ground or have been. What tags have been used ? Any recommended strategies ? Regards, will. _______________________________________________ HOT mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot
