<div dir="auto"><div>Very well. What is a minimum requirement for a sparsely populated island with unpaved streets and roads to get its first highway=tertiary? A pair of hamlets? A single large town? How large?<br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, 25 Apr 2024, 14:46 Mateusz Konieczny via Tagging, <<a href="mailto:tagging@openstreetmap.org">tagging@openstreetmap.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Apr 25, 2024, 16:16 by <a href="mailto:fernando.trebien@gmail.com" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">fernando.trebien@gmail.com</a>:<br></div><blockquote style="border-left:1px solid #93a3b8;padding-left:10px;margin-left:5px"><div dir="auto">I also think that such changes also imply corrections to the following<br></div><div dir="auto">section regarding how importance is to be assessed by mappers:<br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><a href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:highway#Assumptions" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:highway#Assumptions</a><br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Particularly this sentence:<br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">"In a region with poor infrastructure, a road of highest importance,<br></div><div dir="auto">forming the main road network there, should be highway=trunk,<br></div><div dir="auto">regardless of being a high-quality wide asphalt road or a low-quality<br></div><div dir="auto">narrow track worse than highway=service in other regions."<br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">The consensus here seems not aligned with this. This section also<br></div><div dir="auto">references the following proposal:<br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><a href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposal:Highway_key_voting_importance" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposal:Highway_key_voting_importance</a><br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Whose summary says:<br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">"the general definition of highway=* should be changed to importance<br></div><div dir="auto">for the road grid (hierarchical position in the interconnecting<br></div><div dir="auto">network) instead of physical attributes"<br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">What is missing is a statement about whether one starts judging such<br></div><div dir="auto">networks by importance from the top (trunk downwards) or from the<br></div><div dir="auto">bottom (tertiary upwards).<br></div></blockquote><div dir="auto">Antarctica has no real road network so missing top levels of road classes<br></div><div dir="auto">is fine.<br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">It is also missing roads between major large cities because it has no<br></div><div dir="auto">major large cities.<br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">If very big island has no roads at all except single small road between <br></div><div dir="auto">two houses it does not mean it is highway=trunk road.<br></div> </div>
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