[HOT] Highway Tag Africa wiki

[john whelan]

Benoit Fournier was kind enough to send me a link that shows the
differences.

"Hi John,

The wiki history can highlight:
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/w/index.php?title=Highway_
Tag_Africa&type=revision&diff=1493742&oldid=1489377

Ben"

For the moment I suspect it might be better to just go over these rather
than give a set of slides that is an interpretation.

The most important part to myself is the track / path / unclassified /
residential differentiation.  I might ask the question if it goes to a
field or the river and its wide enough to drive a 4 x 4 down and where a 4
x 4 can be driven is probably subjective then I think its a track.
Rereading the updated wiki do I get the impression if its narrower then the
wiki is saying it should be a path instead?

Could someone perhaps identify what each change was and why it was made
since changes to this page have a quite large impact and may require
multiple training guides and tutorials to be updated never mind the poor
validators.

Thanks John

On 29 July 2017 at 09:02, Pierre Béland <pierzenh at yahoo.fr> wrote:

> Hi Emmor
>
> While I coordinated the Mali OSM Response in 2013, I did create the
> original version of the highway tagging for Mali to take account of the
> importance of the roads and tell contributors from northern countries to
> not classify looking at the condition of the road.
>
> Later, contributors discussed about Africa in general and proposed to
> rename the wiki page as  Africa Highway Tagging Guide
> <http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Highway_Tag_Africa> to represent all
> of Africa.
>
> Villages and towns are of various sizes. To decide what is a residential
> or a tertiary road, is not always easy.  We need to decide which road
> should be reclassified to tertiary to establish a hierarchy that make sense.
>
> At the beginning of the wiki page, I did add a note asking contributors to
> come on this list and discuss changes.
>
> Sorry but I am a volunteer and I could not pay the flight to be part of
> the discussions at the SOTM Africa.
>
> I invite you and the others to give us more details on the discussions and
> the modifications you made to the wiki page.
>
>  regard
>
> Pierre
>
>
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> *À :* john whelan <jwhelan0112 at gmail.com>
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> *Envoyé le :* vendredi 28 juillet 2017 23h27
> *Objet :* Re: [HOT] Highway Tag Africa wiki
>
> I led the discussion at the Highway Tagging workshop on the last day of
> SOTM Africa.
> There was quite a bit of discussion and agreement that the existing
> tagging can be frustrating, however, we did not generate any new proposals
> for additional tags.
> We did agree on some changes to the Africa Highway Tagging Guide
> <https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Highway_Tag_Africa> which has now
> been updated to reflect not only Functional Class but also Construction
> class and width.
> I am in the process of preparing a one page reference guide for use in
> carto-parties and mapathons and by new mappers.
>
> General changes or clarifications:
> A residential road serves people who live adjacent to it.
> An unclassified road connects settlements and collects traffic from
> residential roads, tracks, and paths
> A track allows people to access agriculture areas, but not connect to a
> settlement
> A path can function like an unclassified highway, but is restricted to
> foot traffic or 2 wheeled vehicles
> Highway = tertiary or secondary may be paved, but not by default.
>
> Let me know if you have questions or suggestions.
>
> Emmor
> (Palolo)
>
> On Fri, Jul 28, 2017 at 4:38 PM, john whelan <jwhelan0112 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> I seem to recall some one posting recently that following discussion at
> the SOTM Africa in Uganda 2017 some changes had been made to the wiki.
>
> Could some one highlight these.
>
> Thanks John
>
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