[ Errr road is where you cannot determine the classification. highway=road is where you cannot determine anything other than it is some link between features.
[ From satellite imagery I can infer the surface and number of lanes most of the time. [ I can usually infer the classification from the start, finish, connecting road classifications and some cultural knowledge. Then you have not been trying to find routes between villages in Africa or Nepal during a HOT Activation where the unsurfaced feature you are seeing could be anything from a path to a track to a tertiary road about the width of a single lane or less.... and then again it could also be a dry watercourse. The rescue and humanitarian teams on the ground need maps as soon as humanly possible and putting highway=road for all unknown classifications is something that is easy for all volunteer mappers to understand and can be recalled from that area and verified later. But at least there is something tentative on the map for aid teams to attempt to get to the next small village if it is at all possible. And no...it is not possible to count the lanes on a sand track in the middle of the bush... but that may well be the tertiary link in that area and becomes an impassable muddy quagmire in the rainy season with small deviations off into the bush where vehicles have tried to find a temporary route around the mud trap. On 4 June 2015 at 00:04, Warin <[email protected]> wrote: > On 3/06/2015 11:16 PM, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote: > >> >> >> >> Am 03.06.2015 um 13:48 schrieb Richard <[email protected]>: >>> >>> Better ideas? >>> >> >> there's highway=road in use for situations where you trace from aerial >> imagery and have no clue about the situation on the ground (name, oneway, >> maxspeed etc) >> >> >> > Errr road is where you cannot determine the classification. > > From satellite imagery I can infer the surface and number of lanes most of > the time. > I can usually infer the classification from the start, finish, connecting > road classifications and some cultural knowledge. > > > _______________________________________________ > Tagging mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging >
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