Hi Caroline, How I typically tag is as follows
- housing estates - highway=residential - rural roads (lower than secondary) - highway=unclassified - driveway to a house - highway=service + service=driveway. - forestry roads with no exit - highway=service - forestry road with through access - highway=unclassified or higher - bog road's - highway=service where the surface looks good from imagery after which I change to highway=track + tracktype=grade (1-5) Note, I rarely map driveways unless they are special in some way e.g. Driveway up to a stately Manor or something similar As for buildings, in the context of townland mapping, I'm only mapping significant buildings e.g. schools, chuches, GAA grounds, etc. Its a whole other project to map all the buildings It's worth keeping in mind, especially around Kerry that a lot of the mapping in that area has been done by tourists so their grading of our highways would be based on the roads where they are from. So for someone from say Germany, anything with grass growing up the middle of it is a track but we would map it as unclassified. And yes, its slow going but many hands make light work. As it can seem endless, it's a good idea to have a goal when you sit down to map. Sometimes I'll take my lunch break at my desk and aim to map a specific housing estate during that 30 mins. I often won't get it done but it gives me something to come back to the next day to finish off. Simply do what you can, when you can, and aim to keep your local area up to date. Anything else is a bonus Dave On 3 Feb 2015 22:26, "Caroline Lewis" <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi - i am correcting in josm and am confused by the highway tags - in cork > highways leading to houses were all tagged as tracks but in the kerry > section there are residential, service, unclassified and tracks > which tag should i use and when? > also do i need to draw in buildings or should i just get highways/streams > done? > its v. slow work!!! > thanks > c. > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-ie mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ie > _______________________________________________ Talk-ie mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ie
