Re: [talk-au] When is a Road a Track

2017-02-10 Thread Ross Scanlon
On 11/02/17 12:21, Warin wrote: On 11-Feb-17 11:28 AM, Ross Scanlon wrote: On 11/02/17 07:00, Warin wrote: The NSW LPT base map is particularly helpful for road classifications .. tracks, unclassified, tertiary and paths. It is in some ways better than a survey as it looks to take into

Re: [talk-au] When is a Road a Track

2017-02-10 Thread Warin
On 11-Feb-17 11:28 AM, Ross Scanlon wrote: On 11/02/17 07:00, Warin wrote: The NSW LPT base map is particularly helpful for road classifications .. tracks, unclassified, tertiary and paths. It is in some ways better than a survey as it looks to take into account the importance to the

Re: [talk-au] When is a Road a Track

2017-02-10 Thread Ross Scanlon
On 11/02/17 07:00, Warin wrote: The NSW LPT base map is particularly helpful for road classifications .. tracks, unclassified, tertiary and paths. It is in some ways better than a survey as it looks to take into account the importance to the community and that is very hard to determine by

Re: [talk-au] When is a Road a Track

2017-02-10 Thread Warin
The NSW LPT base map is particularly helpful for road classifications .. tracks, unclassified, tertiary and paths. It is in some ways better than a survey as it looks to take into account the importance to the community and that is very hard to determine by simply travelling the road. Where a

Re: [talk-au] When is a Road a Track

2017-02-09 Thread David Bannon
Do you mean without seeing them yourself Warren ? I personally think that you should only correct another mapper's work if you have personally seen something that needs correction. I am sure there are some exceptions. But here, in particular, you seem to have "negative" information. Its

Re: [talk-au] When is a Road a Track

2017-02-09 Thread Andrew Harvey
On 10 February 2017 at 16:33, Warren wrote: > Do we accept the Main Roads Western Australia data as a list of officially > recognised Roads ( highway = primary, residential, etc not = track or = > path)? > > I accept the point that highway = unclassified could be

Re: [talk-au] When is a Road a Track

2017-02-09 Thread Warren
I agree Eon4wd, my interest in OSM originated from my interest in bushwalking. Often we can make an educated guess of tracktype from an aerial image and knowledge of the general area. I suggest that if it is not clear you leave out the tracktype field, this implies unknown. My point was

Re: [talk-au] When is a Road a Track

2017-02-09 Thread Eon4wd
Hi Warren, Tracks are of particular interest to me. As a 4wder, I plan my travels according to the tracks and the 'grade' of the track in an area, thus getting them right is important to me. If highway = Track is used it really needs the additional 'grade' tags The Aust tagging guidelines is a

Re: [talk-au] When is a Road a Track

2017-02-09 Thread Warin
Does the Main roads Department show residential roads? If not then I would also assume that the unclassified roads would not necessarily be displayed either. On their website .. https://www.mainroads.wa.gov.au/OurRoads/Facts/Pages/StateRoadNetworkMaps.aspx they say "In the future, this may

Re: [talk-au] When is a Road a Track

2017-02-09 Thread Ben Kelley
Generally if it's graded I would put highway=unclassified. - Ben. On 10 February 2017 at 10:51, Warren wrote: > I have asked this question before but did not really get a clear answer. > > I am working off the Western Australian Main Roads data checking against >