<div dir="auto">Part of the problem is the existing mapping and what is currently understood by end users. Changes to the user interface no matter what it is are expensive in time. Tutorials need to be translated if we are to continue to map in a coordinated way.<div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Routing software needs to know whether to route a motorcycle along the highway or not. Are we saying that paths are usable by motorcycles?</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Highway unclassified should be routable by anything but whether the highway is passable at a particular time of year or not is different.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">The existing highway tagging needs cleaning up. It's not as accurate as it could be. Strangely enough HOT is helping here by having people go over existing parts of the map in a systematic way. Some of the tracks connecting settlements are getting retagged to unclassified by the mappers or validators in the process.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Cheerio John</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 29 Jul 2017 1:57 pm, "Jens Mueller (Historical Research Services)" <<a href="mailto:hrs@hist.de">hrs@hist.de</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<div>Hi!</div>
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<div>I hope that you do not mind if I “jump into” your interesting and very
important discussion.</div>
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<div>I have had problems with the defintion of “unclassified roads” and
“paths”.</div>
<div>Based on your defintion any roads which are not accessable by 4x4 wheel
cars should be tagged as “path” (or as “tracks” if they only connect to
agricultural places), even if they are the only roads which connect settlements.
Is this correct?</div>
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<div>Please take a short look (if you do not mind and have the time to do so) at
a “OSM forum” discussion two years ago.</div>
<div>I mapped in Ethiopia mainly oin the municipality of “Yemezegn”.</div>
<div>There are several roads of different sizes there, as decribed in my
posting.</div>
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<div>A native Ethiopian did in-depth research in that area for his master thesis
and stated:</div>
<div><font face="Times New Roman">“According to the observation data, two
Kebeles namely Yemezegn and Gibtsawit are inaccessable by vehicles and hence, do
not have easy access to public transport.”</font></div>
<div><font face="Times New Roman">And it seems as if he meant inaccesable by all
(normal, including 4x4) vehicles.</font></div>
<div><font face="Times New Roman">If this is indeed true, should all roads be
tagged as paths?</font></div>
<div><a title="https://forum.openstreetmap.org/viewtopic.php?id=54917" href="https://forum.openstreetmap.org/viewtopic.php?id=54917" target="_blank">https://forum.openstreetmap.<wbr>org/viewtopic.php?id=54917</a></div>
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<div><font size="3" face="Calibri">Any help and ideas would be greatly appreciated
after this would help me a lot for other mapping projects in Ethiopia and DR
Congo (near the Lake Tanganyika, where a lot of settlements only have access by
vehicles via the Lake).</font></div>
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<div><font size="3" face="Calibri">Thank you.</font></div>
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<div><font size="3" face="Calibri">Kind Regards,</font></div>
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<div><font size="3" face="Calibri">Ukundji</font></div>
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<div><b>From:</b> <a title="jwhelan0112@gmail.com" href="mailto:jwhelan0112@gmail.com" target="_blank">john whelan</a> </div>
<div><b>Sent:</b> Saturday, July 29, 2017 1:38 AM</div>
<div><b>To:</b> <a title="hot@openstreetmap.org" href="mailto:hot@openstreetmap.org" target="_blank">hot@openstreetmap.org</a> </div>
<div><b>Subject:</b> [HOT] Highway Tag Africa wiki</div></div></div>
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<div class="gmail_default" style="FONT-SIZE:small;FONT-FAMILY:verdana,sans-serif">I seem to recall some
one posting recently that following discussion at the SOTM Africa in Uganda 2017
some changes had been made to the wiki.<br><br></div>
<div class="gmail_default" style="FONT-SIZE:small;FONT-FAMILY:verdana,sans-serif">Could some one
highlight these. <br><br>Thanks John<br></div></div>
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