For the Mali Humanitarian Response in early 2013, the Support Team, we noticed
that contributors had difficulty to adapt to the reality of this african
country with roads heavily damaged at rainy season, with street roads and major
roads that looked like tracks. They had the tendancy to map everything as track
or road.
We had to inform them on the reality of this african country where road
infrastructures where completely different ot the road infrastructures the
contributors knew in their respective countries.
I then created the Mali highway wiki page that later from various discussions
we renamed Highway_Tag_Africa
This wiki page insist on taking account of the importance of this individual
road in the country highway network and make distinction between the role of
this road and the condition of this road.
>From imagery, looking at villages, town and cities, you can evaluate the
>status of an individual road and tag it appropriately. This is either
- non connecting roads going out of villages to farmlands or forestry areas :
highway=track- highway=residential for residential ways large enough for cars
to circulate (not path because this is a dirt road)
- a minor road connecting hamlets and small villages : highway=unclassified-
you then graduate from the importance of the road highway=[tertiary, secondary,
primary ...]
We need to adapt to situation of various countries and surely not develop
classification on roads based only on the reality of the rich countries where
motorways and paved roads are the norm. A primary road in Mali, even if this
is a dirt road highly damaged at rainy season, this is still a primary road.
Other tags should be used to describe the condition of the road (ie. surface
smoothness).
And yes, it is better to indicate highway=unclassified + add a fixme then to
use highway=[road, track]
Pierre
De : Aun Johnsen <[email protected]>
À : [email protected]
Cc : OpenStreetMap <[email protected]>
Envoyé le : mardi 27 Septembre 2016 9h21
Objet : Re: [OSM-talk] [Tagging] non-temporary usage of highway=road
> On Sep 27, 2016, at 09:00, [email protected] wrote:
>
> Sadly this issue was closed
>
> https://github.com/openstreetmap/iD/issues/2742
>
> --
> Holger
>
There have been quite a few issues and tickets regarding this over a time
period, with little or no results, that is why I have resolved taking this to
the list. Seems like asking the developers of the different tools are somewhat
futile, and we need broader attention on this issue.
Aun Johnsen
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