Simple is good but not having a separate classification the streets around Ason and like areas seems like a step too far. They are in a conceptual category other than "residential"... they are crowded with pedestrians, with road side vendors etc who actually have priority over cars. From a purely practical perspective I'd want routing tools to avoid those kinds of streets... I mean you could push through those areas with a car, I've seen it done, but that does not make it a good idea.<div>
<br></div><div><a href="http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Living_street">http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Living_street</a> says "<span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:19.200000762939453px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Routing and navigation software </span><i style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:19.200000762939453px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">might</i><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><font face="sans-serif"><span style="line-height:19.200000762939453px"> try to avoid such areas when navigating cars." So if we going to try and fit our requirements to western categories, this might be the best one we have. Unless of course there is an additional attribute that </span></font><font face="sans-serif"><span style="line-height:19.185184478759766px">achieves the same effect.</span></font></span><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-family:sans-serif;line-height:19.200000762939453px"> </span></div>
<div><span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:19.200000762939453px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:19.200000762939453px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">-s</span></div>
<div><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Aug 23, 2012 at 7:00 AM, Rajeev Amatya <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:rajeevamatya@gmail.com" target="_blank">rajeevamatya@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
Hi guys,<div>Bibek and I worked on the road standards. We want to finalize it by Friday. It would be a nice idea to make it as simple as possible, while covering most of the common roads of Kathmandu and Nepal. We also talked to OSMers in Munich and got some good feedbacks from them. Living Street is a very European concept and probably does not apply to Nepal. Might be a good idea to not use it at all. Also, most of the routing apps are based upon European roads, so it would be a good idea to try to comply as much as possible so that we use them with minimum code change. </div>
<div><a href="http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Nepal:Roads#Local_Roads" target="_blank">http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Nepal:Roads#Local_Roads</a>
</div><div><br></div><div>Please have a look and start a discussion if you don't agree. But let's get it done quickly. Thanks a lot.</div><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><div>Rajeev</div>
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