Hi Andrew, Classification is a hotly debated topic that surely deserves more attention, with many controversial proposals as written in the article. The system proposed in the article dates back to 2013 and has been heavily criticised, producing fragmentary networks in regions with many unpaved roads (most places in Brazil except the most developed regions along the coast). Recently there has been a very interesting forum thread focused on rural highway classification in the southermost state of Rio Grande do Sul [1], where mappers have agreed to diverge from the system proposed in 2013 (what's on the wiki right now).
The wiki does not talk about urban street classification. The Brazilian community has agreed to try to follow municipal plans as closely as possible. So far, only the street classification in the region of Porto Alegre is documented in detail [2]. We have gathered the official street classification of many cities [3], but most have not been reviewed yet, a few have been reviewed but not documented. In Santa Maria [4], some classification has been done but the mappers have stated that they did not base their work on the community's agreement, instead following an approach more similar to that of 2013. [1] https://forum.openstreetmap.org/viewtopic.php?id=62430 [2] https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Pt:Porto_Alegre,_Rio_Grande_do_Sul/Sistema_Vi%C3%A1rio [3] https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Category:Cidades_com_hierarquia_vi%C3%A1ria_oficial [4] https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Santa_Maria,_Rio_Grande_do_Sul/Sistema_Vi%C3%A1rio On Fri, Nov 9, 2018 at 2:38 PM Andrew Wiseman <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hello OSM Brazil, > > My name is Andrew Wiseman, I work for Apple on the Maps team. My team is > interested in doing some work on the road network in Brazil on OpenStreetMap, > things like adding missing roads, making sure roads connect properly, fixing > incorrect alignments with GPS traces, ensuring road classifications are > consistent, and other similar issues. > > Are there places you know of that need improvement or types of problems you > see frequently? Also I saw these guidelines about road classifications, are > they the most recent classifications used by the community, or are there any > others we should be aware of? > https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Pt:How_to_map_a > > We have a Github page here about the project: > https://github.com/osmlab/appledata/issues/126 > > Please let me know if you have any suggestions or feedback. > > Thank you, > Andrew > Apple, Inc. > > > Andrew Wiseman | Maps | [email protected] > _______________________________________________ > Talk-br mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-br -- Fernando Trebien _______________________________________________ Talk-br mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-br
