[HOT] Highway Tag Africa wiki

[Jens Mueller (Historical Research Services)]

Hi!

I hope that you do not mind if I “jump into” your interesting and very important discussion.

I have had problems with the defintion of “unclassified roads” and “paths”.
Based on your defintion any roads which are not accessable by 4x4 wheel cars should be tagged as “path” (or as “tracks” if they only connect to agricultural places), even if they are the only roads which connect settlements. Is this correct?

Please take a short look (if you do not mind and have the time to do so) at a “OSM forum” discussion two years ago.
I mapped in Ethiopia mainly oin the municipality of “Yemezegn”.
There are several roads of different sizes there, as decribed in my posting.

A native Ethiopian did in-depth research in that area for his master thesis and stated:
“According to the observation data, two Kebeles namely Yemezegn and Gibtsawit are inaccessable by vehicles and hence, do not have easy access to public transport.”
And it seems as if he meant inaccesable by all (normal, including 4x4) vehicles.
If this is indeed true, should all roads be tagged as paths?
https://forum.openstreetmap.org/viewtopic.php?id=54917

Any help and ideas would be greatly appreciated after this would help me a lot for other mapping projects in Ethiopia and DR Congo (near the Lake Tanganyika, where a lot of settlements only have access by vehicles via the Lake).

Thank you.

Kind Regards,

Ukundji


From: john whelan 
Sent: Saturday, July 29, 2017 1:38 AM
To: hot at openstreetmap.org 
Subject: [HOT] Highway Tag Africa wiki

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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