On Wed, 24 Apr 2024, 20:31 Brian M. Sperlongano, wrote:
> if you can convince me that it's actually a road.
It is clearly an ice road.[1][2] It is made of compacted ice, it was
built over two years by levelling snow and filling in crevasses, it is
maintained/rebuilt every summer and is used by
I'm sure the answer to this question... CRITICAL ... to many data
consumers...
Anyways:
This:
https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/1159748452
seems fine, if you can convince me that it's actually a road. Clearly the
most significant road in the area...
It's essentially the only road *grin*
Apr 24, 2024, 17:55 by fernando.treb...@gmail.com:
> On Wed, 24 Apr 2024 at 12:06, Mateusz Konieczny via Tagging <>
> tagging@openstreetmap.org> > wrote:
> > Antarctica has no cities, towns and villages.
>
> McMurdo Station, the largest and most important research station in
> Antarctica,
to be more concrete, I think for an important link like
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Pole_Traverse
highway=primary would be appropriate.
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On Wed, 24 Apr 2024 at 12:06, Mateusz Konieczny via Tagging <
tagging@openstreetmap.org> wrote:
> Antarctica has no cities, towns and villages.
McMurdo Station, the largest and most important research station in
Antarctica, has been mapped as place=town since 2009, then briefly as
place=hamlet
Am Mi., 24. Apr. 2024 um 16:33 Uhr schrieb Fernando Trebien <
fernando.treb...@gmail.com>:
> As Antarctica is international space,[1] I understand that, in
> principle, the highway classification scheme of no particular country
> applies there.
Generally, highway classification is not done
Hi,
personally I would not expect to see any roads of a higher class than
"tertiary" in Antarctica. I would expect something like the 5% or 10%
most important roads (by total length) to be tertiary, and then assign
unclassified/service to the rest.
Should the classification of highways in
Apr 24, 2024, 16:35 by fernando.treb...@gmail.com:
> This will assign very low road classes
> across the continent.
>
I would expect such outcome. Antarctica has no cities, towns and villages.
No people live there permanently. It has things like research stations.
As Antarctica is international space,[1] I understand that, in
principle, the highway classification scheme of no particular country
applies there. For a while, I tried to come up with a balanced generic
scheme based on the regional importance of these roads,[2] which has
been questioned,[3] so I
