Hi, with the creation of the TM for the priority cities in Central African Republic, there are questions and discussion regarding the roads tagging.
We, the Eurosha CAR team, have published a suggested road typology on the project Wiki page ( http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/WikiProject_Central_African_Republic#Road_typology) but we and other mappers still often have doubts when mapping (residential/track/path/other...). We will be happy for your opinions, suggestions and experience from similar environemts. Sincerely Eurosha CAR team Hi, > I would say we should tag roads with highway=road as a default if we cannot > state about if it is a path or a track and if it is not an obvious > residential road. > Regarding unclassified/tertiary/secondary, IMHO it is quite difficult to > tqg this on a TM squre cause we need to have a larger overview to decide. > > Sincerely, > Severin > > > > I finished off a single quarter-square of > http://tasks.hotosm.org/job/134a short time ago; this was a rural area. > I am new to tracing and tagging > > in Africa. > > > > I've tagged all the roadways I added as {{tag|highway|unclassified}} as I > > wasn't sure which should be down-tagged to, for instance, track or path. > > On the other side, I was not sure which should be up-tagged to, for > > instance, {{tag|highway|tertiary}}. Further, I am not inferring surface > > material; the {{tag|highway|secondary}} which passes through my quarter > > square was tagged with a surface. > > > > Is my approach OK going forward? > > > > --ceyockey > > > > > Same problem in Madagascar. But also using road, we will wait for > years before a field mapper can check the road and change the > classification. So, there is a tendency to use unclassified by default > and to change it to tertiary if we have some other informations like > the main access to "commune" main town. > > Eric > > > > Hi, > this is the Eurosha volunteers from CAR, currently in refuge in Cameroun. > So far we have been using this convention (for Bangui and a few cities > taken by the rebels). We have chosen this classification based on the > importance of the roads (not necessarily the size or surface). > > - Primary - The main axes connecting the biggest cities and a the most > important roads in Bangui. > - Secondary - The roads connecting big cities with villages and a bit > less important roads in Bangui. > - Tertiary - not really used except for a few roads in Bangui > - Residential - used for all the roads where houses are around > - Tracks - the small roads going outside the residential areas > - Path - little roads just for pedestrians, not big enough for a car > (however, the Centralafricans consider every road big enough for a car > :)) > > For an example, check the city of Bria (http://tasks.hotosm.org/job/134), > feel free to have a look at the whole city, it is not big. > We are going to add the typology of roads on the wiki page for CAR ( > http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/WikiProject_Central_African_Republic) > but before that we will be happy for more suggestions on this. > > Sincerely > Eurosha CAR team >
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