[HOT] Central African Republic roadway tagging question

[Filip Rosenkranc]

Hi,

with the creation of the TM for the priority cities in Central African
Republic, there are questions and discussion regarding the roads tagging.

We, the Eurosha CAR team, have published a suggested road typology on the
project Wiki page (
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/WikiProject_Central_African_Republic#Road_typology)
but we and other mappers still often have doubts when mapping
(residential/track/path/other...).

We will be happy for your opinions, suggestions and experience from similar
environemts.

Sincerely
Eurosha CAR team


Hi,
> I would say we should tag roads with highway=road as a default if we cannot
> state about if it is a path or a track and if it is not an obvious
> residential road.
> Regarding unclassified/tertiary/secondary, IMHO it is quite difficult to
> tqg this on a TM squre cause we need to have a larger overview to decide.
>
> Sincerely,
> Severin
>
>


> > I finished off a single quarter-square of
> http://tasks.hotosm.org/job/134a short time ago; this was a rural area.
>  I am new to tracing and tagging
> > in Africa.
> >
> > I've tagged all the roadways I added as {{tag|highway|unclassified}} as I
> > wasn't sure which should be down-tagged to, for instance, track or path.
> >  On the other side, I was not sure which should be up-tagged to, for
> > instance, {{tag|highway|tertiary}}.  Further, I am not inferring surface
> > material; the {{tag|highway|secondary}} which passes through my quarter
> > square was tagged with a surface.
> >
> > Is my approach OK going forward?
> >
> > --ceyockey
>
>
>
>
> Same problem in Madagascar. But also using road, we will wait for
> years before a field mapper can check the road and change the
> classification. So, there is a tendency to use unclassified by default
> and to change it to tertiary if we have some other informations like
> the main access to "commune" main town.
>
> Eric
>
>
>
> Hi,
> this is the Eurosha volunteers from CAR, currently in refuge in Cameroun.
> So far we have been using this convention (for Bangui and a few cities
> taken by the rebels). We have chosen this classification based on the
> importance of the roads (not necessarily the size or surface).
>
>    - Primary - The main axes connecting the biggest cities and a the most
>    important roads in Bangui.
>    - Secondary - The roads connecting big cities with villages and a bit
>    less important roads in Bangui.
>    - Tertiary - not really used except for a few roads in Bangui
>    - Residential - used for all the roads where houses are around
>    - Tracks - the small roads going outside the residential areas
>    - Path - little roads just for pedestrians, not big enough for a car
>    (however, the Centralafricans consider every road big enough for a car
> :))
>
> For an example, check the city of Bria (http://tasks.hotosm.org/job/134),
> feel free to have a look at the whole city, it is not big.
> We are going to add the typology of roads on the wiki page for CAR (
> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/WikiProject_Central_African_Republic)
> but before that we will be happy for more suggestions on this.
>
> Sincerely
> Eurosha CAR team
>
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