[HOT] Tagging highways in semi-urban areas in Malawi

Martin Hibbert m902.osm at gmail.com
Wed Apr 13 22:45:14 UTC 2016


Could you take a look at 
http://www.openstreetmap.org/edit#map=17/-9.91903/33.89645 (part of 
http://tasks.hotosm.org/project/1641 Malawi).
I wouldn't describe the area as residential as the buildings are too 
scattered and there are cultivated fields in between.

You will see there are some obvious highway=unclassified (wide roads 
linking areas of population). Also some obvious highway=path (less than 
2m wide) between groups of buildings.

But I am unsure how best to tag the smaller highways (2m wide or more, 
and so accessible for a vehicle) between some of these groups of 
buildings. Presumably not highway=track, as we are told that is for 
access to farmland.

Would highway=service be sensible?

What do others do?

Thanks
Martin
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