<div dir="ltr"><div>> Japan has local rules that _require_ a very rough mountain path near me, impassable by any vehicle</div><div><br></div><div>If I'm understanding this correctly, the path is classified as a prefectural road but isn't maintained for vehicle use? </div><div>I think there should be exceptions for cases like these to match the actual condition of the road.. I wonder if this has come up in the Japanese OSM community before?</div><br clear="all"><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr">Keitaroh Kobayashi<div><a href="mailto:keita@kbys.me" target="_blank">keita@kbys.me</a></div></div></div></div><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Oct 19, 2022 at 9:27 AM Jeffrey Friedl via osmf-talk <<a href="mailto:osmf-talk@openstreetmap.org">osmf-talk@openstreetmap.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">> might make it absolutely appropriate for the same tag to have slightly differing meanings in different countries.<br>
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Japan has local rules that _require_ a very rough mountain path near me, impassable by any vehicle and challenging for a fit person to trek by foot, to be tagged "highway=secondary". To me this seems simply wrong and harmful to the goals of OSM.<br>
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To me, this is well beyond "slightly different", and I wish OSM had some kind of guidelines that would disallow Japan from creating rules like this.<br>
Jeffrey<br>
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