>Doesn't that feel like Africa already ? dunno never been there. It's -13c tonight and -25c coming up shortly. There is white stuff on the ground.
> width and lanes keys could be used to provide info about smaller streets. Pierre you're talking sense again. I think we have highlighted the issue and that's really all we can do. There is a difference between a local mapper with a tape measure and an armchair mapper mapping from imagery for the first time without reading any instructions but I can't put my finger on the critical difference. I think we need boots on the ground to identify alleyways and very narrow highways and Pierre's suggestion of them using width and lane tags makes a lot of sense. Thank you both for your thoughts. If its currently warmer than -25c over there I'm very tempted to pick up my tape measure and pop over to measure a few street widths. Cheerio John On 10 December 2016 at 20:17, Pierre Béland <pierz...@yahoo.fr> wrote: > width and lanes keys could be used to provide info about smaller streets. > > > Pierre > > > ------------------------------ > *De :* Jean-Marc Liotier <j...@liotier.org> > *À :* john whelan <jwhelan0...@gmail.com> > *Cc :* OpenStreetMap talk mailing list <talk@openstreetmap.org> > *Envoyé le :* samedi 10 décembre 2016 20h10 > *Objet :* Re: [OSM-talk] Mozambique's living streets > > Legal definition vs."duck typing" - there is a bit of both in > Openstreetmap tagging... But because "living street" has a precise legal > definition in Europe, involved mappers chose not to confuse the issue by > using a different one. > > Then there was the question of differentiating large residential streets > from minor ones... Some bright spark took initiative by tagging a large > part of Dakar's residential streets as highway=service - that has been > universally perceived as a very bad idea. > > I mostly just highway=residential with a surface=* tag but now that you > remind me of those discussion, I'm thinking that a key differentiator is > the presence of a sidewalk. What about: > > highway=residential > surface=ground > sidewalk=no > > Doesn't that feel like Africa already ? > > > _______________________________________________ > talk mailing list > talk@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk > > >
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