[Imports] WRI Congo Basin forestry tracks import

[Christoph Hormann]

On Tuesday 17 February 2015, Rafael Avila Coya wrote:
> >
> > My recommendation therefore would be to not use this data for an
> > import but render a map layer from it that can be used as a hint by
> > the mappers in the sense of 'look for a road here and if there is
> > one map it based newer high resolution images'.
>
> If this was an automatic import, I would also strongly recommend not
> to do it. In any case, I wouldn't recommend any roads automatic
> import anywhere nowadays.
>
> But this will be a ***MANUAL*** import. And this means that people
> involved in it will check the data correctness before it actually
> upload it.

I read your import description, i am aware of that.

The reason for my recommendation is that there are exactly zero cases 
where using the original data directly leads to less work for the 
mapper here.  The data should not be uploaded without verification so 
it is only of use if higher resolution images are available and in that 
case it is less work to newly draw and tag the road than to adjust 
inaccurate and partly erroneous source data.

> If government gives rights for logging, if means it's for forestry
> traffic, and that's exactly what we have in the wiki (
> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:access ): "Only for forestry
> traffic". I don't see your differentiation anywhere in the Key:access
> wiki. Likewise for agricultural use.

I don't really want to get into a discussion on semantics here - from 
the information available so far access=forestry seem clearly wrong, 
especially considering this applies to all modes of transport.

If you are in contact with people and organizations in those countries a 
much more useful step would be to research and document the default 
access restrictions there on:

http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/OSM_tags_for_routing/Access-Restrictions

-- 
Christoph Hormann
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