Meant to send this on-list: On Wed, 2007-10-10 at 22:06 +0200, Nic Roets wrote: > My preference would be to let the local mapper use his discrestion > when choosing between service, residential, unclassified and tertiary.
I concur absolutely with this idea - I think a 'tertiary' is a road which is slightly more 'important' in some sense than surrounding roads, without being a throughroute. This is rather difficult to quantify, and something which should be a question of discretion for someone who knows the area. > I think the principle should be relative road quality, i.e. if 4 roads > run between A and B and are all the same length, the road that local > mapper would recommend to tourists (taking into consideration traffic, > surface etc) should be tagged as "tertiary". His second choice should > be tagged as "unclassified" etc. Absolutely. (Assuming you imply that his third/fourth choices would also be tagged 'unclassified'/'residential' as appropriate.) > This may cause minor disputes between mappers (just like disputes on > wikipedia), but at least we will capture some local wisdom. At the moment, different mappers generally (in my experience with Cape Town, at least) seem to have essentially non-overlapping areas, so it isn't a problem yet. It might become one later. Happily, geographical data like OSM doesn't have quite the same potential for ideological flame wars that an encyclopedia does. (I hope!) Cheers, Adrian _______________________________________________ Talk-ZA mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/talk-za
