[HOT] Thank you from MSF!

Frans Schutz frans.schutz at gmail.com
Sat Apr 6 10:27:15 UTC 2019


Hello Ralf

you pinpoint to a situation which is not always clear.
First of all. we ty to keep ourselves to the East African Highway 
tagging wiki
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/East_Africa_Tagging_Guidelines

Different mappers judge different how to tag a highway. Out of my own 
experience lots of mappers (and validators) struggle with how to tag a 
highway.  Looking to the importance, the routing, and the width of the 
highway, which is hard to measure from a satellite image, we have to 
decide. A big number of new mappers are joining us and have different 
ideas (nor no idea at all) how to tag a highway. I've seen taggings as 
secondary highway as a connection to 2 hamlets and so on. So we try to 
tag as good as possible, but often it is a (calculated)guess which tag 
is relevant. Take also in account that there is a huge time pressure on 
these disaster mapping projects, so sometimes you accept the tagging as 
they were made. When there is no time pressure you can take a look to 
each highway and decide.
I hope you get an understanding how we have to deal with this subject.
Best regards
Frans Schutz
Validator



Op 5-4-2019 om 20:10 schreef Ralf Bernhardt:
> Interesting when compared to the openstreetmap data.
>
> There are many POIs I would like to see on Openstreetmap too, also
> boundarys and place names.
>
> I also noticed a different tagging scheme: Car, Moto and Foot. I would
> guess that Roads not passable for a car but by foot and moto should be
> highway=path in OSM.
>
> But most of them are still tagged as unclassified or residential. Is
> there a reason for that or will you change them later?
>
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