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12pt;font-family: Verdana;">There is another wiki guide <br><br><a
href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Highway_Tag_Africa">https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Highway_Tag_Africa</a><br><br>both
get updated from time to time. As a general rule of thumb I tag
highways between settlements as unclassified not track, I leave it to
the local mappers to say if it is a higher classification. Occasionally
I'll tag as high as tertiary. Normally I leave the tags alone but have
been known to retag motorways between two small settlements as
unclassified.<br><br>I think step one is to get something mapped. Step
two is correct it and with lots of new mappers with different ideas
we'll always see some problems.<br><br>Cheerio John <br><br><span>Frans
Schutz wrote on 2019-04-06 6:27 AM:</span><br><blockquote type="cite"
cite="mid:d149b0cf-df1d-8dc9-4117-50b920ccafb9@gmail.com">Hello Ralf
<br>
<br>you pinpoint to a situation which is not always clear.
<br>First of all. we ty to keep ourselves to the East African Highway
tagging wiki
<br><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/East_Africa_Tagging_Guidelines">https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/East_Africa_Tagging_Guidelines</a>
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<br>Different mappers judge different how to tag a highway. Out of my
own
experience lots of mappers (and validators) struggle with how to tag a
highway. Looking to the importance, the routing, and the width of the
highway, which is hard to measure from a satellite image, we have to
decide. A big number of new mappers are joining us and have different
ideas (nor no idea at all) how to tag a highway. I've seen taggings as
secondary highway as a connection to 2 hamlets and so on. So we try to
tag as good as possible, but often it is a (calculated)guess which tag
is relevant. Take also in account that there is a huge time pressure on
these disaster mapping projects, so sometimes you accept the tagging as
they were made. When there is no time pressure you can take a look to
each highway and decide.
<br>I hope you get an understanding how we have to deal with this
subject.
<br>Best regards
<br>Frans Schutz
<br>Validator
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<br>Op 5-4-2019 om 20:10 schreef Ralf Bernhardt:
<br><blockquote type="cite">Interesting when compared to the
openstreetmap data.
<br>
<br>There are many POIs I would like to see on Openstreetmap too, also
<br>boundarys and place names.
<br>
<br>I also noticed a different tagging scheme: Car, Moto and Foot. I
would
<br>guess that Roads not passable for a car but by foot and moto should
be
<br>highway=path in OSM.
<br>
<br>But most of them are still tagged as unclassified or residential. Is
<br>there a reason for that or will you change them later?
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