Hi Brad,
In the mountains areas, there are often only paths between villages, no roads.
It would help to look with elevation maps to understand the context.
The famous Nepal treks follow these paths. For example, there Langtang trail
where people are reported lost
today.http://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/1269089 I dont know the status of
the Annapurna trek as of the recent years, but it used to be only on paths, no
roads for more then 200 km.This link shows Chame on this Annapurna trek. Short
segment of roads are reported. We should evaluate if there are really roads
there for these short portions.
http://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=13/28.5506/84.2717
If not certain about road status in rural areas, First asssure that cars can
circulate.
Where cars can circulate between villages I, would indicate
highway=unclassified. This still can be used by routing tools but has a lesser
priority.
Anyone to document specificities for Nepal?
Pierre
De : Brad Neuhauser <[email protected]>
À : Robert Banick <[email protected]>
Cc : Pierre Béland <[email protected]>; "HOT@OSM (Humanitarian OpenStreetMap
Team)" <[email protected]>
Envoyé le : Mardi 28 avril 2015 11h46
Objet : Re: [HOT] Road classification system in Nepal
Longtime OSMer, infrequent HOTtie here, I wanted to follow up with a question
on road tagging: on the Nepal Roads page, there is a section on Highways in
Rural & Mountainous Areas which seems to imply that highway=path is usually the
correct tagging for these roads. Is this correct?
Also, in rural areas, what is the "default" tag that people can use if they're
not sure how to classify a rural road/path? I haven't done a huge amount of
editing on these tasks, but I've seen highway=path, highway=track,
highway=road, highway=footpath, even highway=pedestrian used. I think the road
classifications in the task instructions are better suited for urban areas, and
more guidance for rural areas (where a lot of tracing activity is) would be
helpful.
Thanks!
Brad
On Mon, Apr 27, 2015 at 7:59 AM, Robert Banick <[email protected]> wrote:
Hi All,
Kathmandu Living Labs took the time to compile a really useful tagging guide
specific to Nepal.
There’s one specific tagging guide for roads here:
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Nepal/Roads
There’s a more general Nepal tagging guide here:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AmYd3Y40Dfk8dGk4TzgtVmE5RExMVGNncEEzb2JtSHc&usp=drive_web#gid=0
I would strongly recommend following KLL’s guidelines wherever possible, they
put a lot of thought into crafting a tagging scheme specific to Nepal’s context.
And for those who don’t know, a galli is an alley. Very useful word in
Kathmandu :)
Best,Robert
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On Mon, Apr 27, 2015 at 12:20 PM, Pierre Béland <[email protected]> wrote:
Arun
I also saw a lot of inconsistencies. You can try to contact directly Nama
Budathoki on this list and from Kathmandu living lab in Kathandu.
They have some difficulties and they might not be online.
If you cannot contact, I suggest that you start to revise.
regard
Pierre
De : Arun Ganesh <[email protected]>
À : "HOT@OSM (Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team)" <[email protected]>
Envoyé le : Lundi 27 avril 2015 5h49
Objet : [HOT] Road classification system in Nepal
There seems to be inconsistencies in how the roads are classified, with many
National Highways being marked as trunk, primary, secondary, tertiary and even
unclassified.
Based on http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Nepal/Roads#Road_Classification and
my own experience with roads in India, the tagging should probably be more like
this:
Trunk National Highway (ref=H##): trunkFeeder Roads (ref=F##): primaryDistrict
Roads (ref=D##): secondary
used with appropriate surface=* tag
Can someone from the ground make any recommendations based on practical use?
There does not seem to be any comprehensive documentation of how the existing
tagging scheme came about and it looks quite messy.
The forum has some discussion about this with no clear consensus:
http://forum.openstreetmap.org/viewtopic.php?id=30221
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Arun Ganesh (planemad)
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