<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:13px"><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1418673865290_10864"><span style="" id="result_box" class="" lang="pt"><span style="" class="">Olá a todos,</span></span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1418673865290_13497" dir="ltr"><br><span style="" id="result_box" class="" lang="pt"><span style="" class=""></span></span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1418673865290_13498" dir="ltr">For every major activation we take care, we have this same problem. Many
remote contributors trace roads. Then, we have to take care of the
classification of the road, and this is a diffucult task and time
consuming task.</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1418673865290_20950" dir="ltr"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1418673865290_20951" dir="ltr">Working for Mali, last year, there was no classification available and we saw major roads that were unpaved an in very bad condition after the rainy season. People from the north classified all of these as tracks. I then proposed the Africa highway classification. The highway tag is to classify the socio-economic importance of the road, its usage This has nothing to do with the surface, structure, width or condition of the road, except that there is a distinction between a motorway and a highway. There are other tags to take account of the surface and the condition.</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1418673865290_15487" dir="ltr"><a id="yui_3_16_0_1_1418673865290_15486" href="http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Highway_Tag_Africa">http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Highway_Tag_Africa</a><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1418673865290_14578" dir="ltr"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1418673865290_13499" dir="ltr"> This classification has been quite adopted. But unfortunately, the developpers of the HOT/HDM Humanaitarian style refuse to follow this Then an unpaved primary road looks like a track and we complety loose the hierarchy classification. This is the "Bad condition rule" (:</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1418673865290_19657" dir="ltr"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1418673865290_20948" dir="ltr">In Brazil, there is surely differences also bettween the urbanized and the remote areas, for example in the Amazone area. If you adopt rules based on the surface or condition of the road, this might be good for urbanized areas but inappropriate for rural areas. <br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1418673865290_14551" dir="ltr"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1418673865290_14549" dir="ltr">In urban areas, It is surely uneasy to hierarchize the roads. And yes, they cannot be all tertiary. A tertiary road should have more traffic then residential area. This is a road to interconnect to the global network.</div><br><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1418673865290_10863"> </div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1418673865290_10882" class="y_msg_container"><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1418673865290_15525" style="font-style:italic;color:rgb(0, 0, 191);font-weight:bold;">Pierre</span><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1418673865290_10859" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1418673865290_10858" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> </div> </div> </div></body></html>