Hi guys,
Just adding in the OSM africa mailing list...
Jorieke
2017-11-15 14:15 GMT+00:00 Jean-Marc Liotier :
> On Tue, 14 Nov 2017 21:26:02 + (UTC)
> Pierre Béland wrote:
> >
> > I we follow the Highway Tag Africa wiki page I initiated in 2013,
> > narrow highways should be evaluaed on the
On Tue, 14 Nov 2017 21:26:02 + (UTC)
Pierre Béland wrote:
>
> I we follow the Highway Tag Africa wiki page I initiated in 2013,
> narrow highways should be evaluaed on the type of traffic possible -
> highway= residential in residential areas if at least passable by 4
> wheels- highway=path if
I do still use tertiaries and above for higher level roads in accordance
with the Highway Tag Africa scheme. I was merely giving an example of
how I classify a service road.
-AndrewBuck
On 11/14/2017 09:48 PM, Pierre Béland wrote:
> From discussions since 2013 with various african OSM communiti
This is an oldie but goldie. North American use of the term "alley" is
in practical terms very different than the rest of the world. See
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alley
The tagging in OSM (highway=service, service=alley) tends to correspond
more to the NA usage than to that elsewhere (which wo
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> On 14. Nov 2017, at 22:12, john whelan wrote:
>
> Some mappers use highway=service generously.
I’m also using highway=service with service=alley and width for small
residential ways in historic centres (mostly small towns and villages, although
it is formally allowed t
I was curious to view some photos of these streets. There are several
English Wikipedia articles for Ibadan, Nigeria:
http://ausleuchtung.ch/geo_wiki/?lat=7.369838460195496&lng=3.9120769500732426&zm=14&lang=en&ds=wiki&rd=10
and several French Wikipedia articles:
http://ausleuchtung.ch/geo_wiki
I agree with Pierre's description of highway=residential and highway=path.
I also believe it is a good idea to tag driveways and roads to compounds as
*highway=service*.
A problem I commonly see in residential areas in Africa is highway=track.
It seems to be a little condescending for remote mappe
>From discussions since 2013 with various african OSM communities and other
>continents with similar realities, it appears that this wiki page is quite
>usefull to help classifiy the highways in these countries.
The objective was to simplify, clarify how to tag highways. Adding pages by
countr
Youthmappers initiative actually has a very large presence in Africa and in
particular local mappers of Ghana, Uganda and Nigeria are very active. They
don't use the talk pages but maybe we can bring them on board to improve
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Highway_Tag_Africa
or create country
Pierre's suggestions are a good guideline in general and I don't have
any disagreements with them.
I did, however want to expand a bit on the idea of when to use service
roads, so here is that...
I for one am in favor of additionally making liberal (but careful) use
of highway=service.
A service
That seems very sensible.
Thanks John
On 14 November 2017 at 16:26, Pierre Béland wrote:
> I we follow the Highway Tag Africa wiki page I initiated in 2013, narrow
> highways should be evaluaed on the type of traffic possible
> - highway= residential in residential areas if at least passable by
I we follow the Highway Tag Africa wiki page I initiated in 2013, narrow
highways should be evaluaed on the type of traffic possible - highway=
residential in residential areas if at least passable by 4 wheels- highway=path
if only motorcycles, bicyles and foot traffic is possible.
https://wiki.
I'm not even sure if this is the best place to raise this but Africa covers
a lot of countries.
We have some agreement on how to map highways in general Africa but narrow
residential highways are a problem. I suspect highway=residential plus a
width tag might be best.
South Africa I think has lo
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