> In the same way a path may be a significant transportation route for a village or small town but it cannot be highway=unclassified or highway=tertiary because of the construction class that limits vehicles.
My thoughts have always been if the settlement has a metal roof then a truck or cart must have delivered it. This means it used the highway connecting which suggests an unclassified rather than a path. My understanding is small motorcycles are popular so do these use highways that are paths or unclassified? I would tend to use residential for streets within a settlement that are not through highways. Cheerio John On 26 Jul 2017 2:05 pm, "Vao Matua" <vaoma...@gmail.com> wrote: > At State of the Map Africa conference earlier this month we had several > discussions about road tagging. > > The Africa Highway Tagging Guide > <http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Highway_Tag_Africa> has been updated > to reflect those discussions. > > Personally I have found that thinking of the tagging hierarchy "upside > down" makes more sense than starting with the "important" roads then > proceeding down to roads of "lesser importance". > Numbers-wise there are more paths and residential roads than any other. > The most important transportation route for an individual is the one that > leads from their home to the village or town. It could be a path or > residential road which would lead to highway=unclassified or > highway=tertiary. > > One question that is useful to ask about the function of the road is "does > it provide a *collector *function?", does the road get used to help > people from various nearby locations get to a single place such as a > hamlet, village, or town? if the route provides access between settlements > then the road is highway=unclassified or highway=tertiary +. > > One of the things that is confusing about the OSM tagging is that it is a > mix of function and construction. A motorway and primary highway may have > the same function, but different construction class. In the same way a path > may be a significant transportation route for a village or small town but > it cannot be highway=unclassified or highway=tertiary because of the > construction class that limits vehicles. > > One of the things that was confusing for me when I started tagging OSM > roads was the highway=track tag. A track as defined in OSM is not a > construction class lower than unclassified or residential. It is a > drive-able route used to access agriculture or forestry areas without a > connection function between settlements. A track can also be found in a > park or game preserve, but should not be used for a road with a through > connection. > > My opinion on highway=service is the same as Blake's, a road inside a > restricted access location (gated community or industrial facility) > wouldn't have the same function as a road with similar construction but > with public access. > > Regards, > > Emmor > (Palolo) > > On Wed, Jul 26, 2017 at 6:30 AM, Blake Girardot <bgirar...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> On Wed, Jul 26, 2017 at 2:39 PM, Bjoern Hassler <bjohas...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> >> > I agree with your definition. Would you agree that it implies that >> > 'residential' is used relatively sparsely, i.e. where a road leads to a >> > group of houses, or where a road is located inside a "gated" are, like >> an >> > institution, university, school or residential community? >> >> If the road is for access to housing and not much else (i.e., >> connecting settlements or major roads inside of settlements) I use >> residential. >> >> Roads in institutions or large commercial facilities I would probably >> map as highway=service, but I am not sure that is a typical usage of >> it, but to me they seem like basically private driveways, just really >> long and complicated driveways. I would feel strange mapping them as >> residential. >> >> Cheers >> Blake >> >> _______________________________________________ >> HOT mailing list >> HOT@openstreetmap.org >> https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot >> > > > _______________________________________________ > HOT mailing list > HOT@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot > >
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