<html><head></head><body><div style="font-family:verdana, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:13px;"><div><div>I we follow the Highway Tag Africa wiki page I initiated in 2013, narrow highways should be evaluaed on the type of traffic possible </div><div>- highway= residential in residential areas if at least passable by 4 wheels</div><div>- highway=path if only motorcycles, bicyles and foot traffic is possible.</div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Highway_Tag_Africa">https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Highway_Tag_Africa</a><br></div><div><br></div><div>The additions made to the wiki page a few months ago about the width add confusion. I think that we should simply move this in a separate section giving guidance on possible widths that represent the various types of highways.<br></div><br><div>regard<br></div><div class="ydpc4d19eeesignature"><span style="font-style:italic;color:rgb(0, 0, 191);font-weight:bold;"> <br><font face="garamond, new york, times, serif">Pierre </font><br></span></div></div>
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Le mardi 14 novembre 2017 16:14:22 HNE, john whelan <jwhelan0112@gmail.com> a écrit :
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<div><div id="ydpdb6cc882yiv5472164253"><div><div>I'm not even sure if this is the best place to raise this but Africa covers a lot of countries.</div><div><br></div>We have some agreement on how to map highways in general Africa but narrow residential highways are a problem. I suspect highway=residential plus a width tag might be best. <div><br></div><div>South Africa I think has local mappers who able to resolve any problems but for the rest of Africa given the large number of armchair mappers mapping there some guidance would be nice.<div><br></div><div>Some mappers use highway=service generously.</div><div><br></div><div>Is it possible to reach some sort of general concenus? </div><div><br></div><div>Thoughts?</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks John</div></div></div></div>_______________________________________________<br>talk mailing list<br><a href="mailto:talk@openstreetmap.org" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">talk@openstreetmap.org</a><br><a href="https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk</a><br></div>
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