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<p><font face="Verdana">Be careful when you use the term
"developed". Local communities become offended. Developed in
which sense, as creating paved highways, as being able to
incorporate natural materials and tracks in a natural
environment, I wouldn't call them developing in general.<br>
They are much more developed in the sense of experience and
integration of highways in a luckily still mostly pristine
natural environment. I can't say that of most of the regions in
the western world.<br>
Better use terms like in tropical countries, southern hemisphere
etc.., these countries are much more developed in many senses.<br>
(This is a kind remark as a counterbalance to the western
domination :) ). Maybe the HFCS should be regarded as not a
favourable development, an example of a "developing" nation when
it comes to climate change and respect for the environment.</font></p>
<p><font face="Verdana">Greetings,</font></p>
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<p><font face="Verdana">Bert Araali</font><br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 22/02/2021 14:17, Fernando Trebien
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<pre class="moz-quote-pre" wrap="">On Mon, Feb 22, 2021 at 7:48 AM stevea <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:steveaOSM@softworkers.com"><steveaOSM@softworkers.com></a> wrote:
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<pre class="moz-quote-pre" wrap="">In a less-developed part of the world, I believe a dirt track can be "logically, locally accurately" tagged highway=secondary, especially as it connects cities or towns. It might be wide, smooth and allow moderate-to-higher speed of a surprising volume of traffic.
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In some less developed parts of the world, there are even unpaved ways
classified as trunk in OSM. [1] Canadian tagging guidelines also allow
unpaved trunk ways there, [2] although I didn't find any on the map.
Unpaved parts of Iceland's Ring Road were classified as a trunk before
the paving was completed, and from economic indicators Iceland can't
really be called "developing".
[1] <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:highway#Assumptions">https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:highway#Assumptions</a>
[2] <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Canadian_tagging_guidelines#Trunk">https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Canadian_tagging_guidelines#Trunk</a>
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