Good Morning, after some discussion on IRC and feedback about my mapping at #568 (thanks, Tallguy), here some points regarding the "Highway Tag Africa" [1] wikipage. I did _not_ put this in the Talk-tab of the wikipage because I suspect that most of the people looking there are looking for insight and not more questions... ;-)
Highway=unclassified vs. tertiary: The difference if a highway is "unclassified" or "tertiary" is defined in terms of "smaller villages and hamlets" and "villages". This might be a cultural thing and sizes might be different everywhere (here in .de a village can be of any size if it hasn't be granted "city rights"). Michael suggested any dwelling smaller then ~20 houses is considered "small" and hence a "small village or hamlet". I will now take this approach and tag everything accordingly. I know I didn't in the last 15 tiles (or so) I worked on. Roads go around houses, not through them: Yeah, I was being lazy because I thought "well you do *know* that cars _have_ to come around *somehow*, but since it isn't clear, don't guess and just draw a line". OK, I stopped being lazy and am drawing around now. Educated guessing can't be too wrong I guess...? Residential roads and major streets: The Wiki says "Used for roads in the residential areas except the major streets that interconnect with various roads." - ok, but now the question arises, what's considered major? Everything starting with tertiary? Or secondary? I may not split a primary highway, that's for sure, and unclassified shall be split... I split all roads between path and (including) tertiary. Secondary is the first level I don't split. Up for discussion... Cheers, Yalla. 1. https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Highway_Tag_Africa -- The best thing about procrastinating is you can do it NOW and ANYTIME. _______________________________________________ HOT mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot
