Ok, we had had a good bootcamp so far, about 70 people, tomorrow we will start working on sengal. mike
On Wed, Sep 5, 2012 at 5:06 PM, william skora <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > -- James Michael DuPont Member of Free Libre Open Source Software Kosova http://flossk.org <http://flossk.org>Saving wikipedia(tm) articles from deletion http://SpeedyDeletion.wikia.com Contributor FOSM, the CC-BY-SA map of the world http://fosm.org Mozilla Rep https://reps.mozilla.org/u/h4ck3rm1k3
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