[OSM-newbies] highway=path, type={primary,secundary}?

[Thomas Meller]

Hi Xan,

there is no real standard way to do so.
You can use the tracktype=* according to the philosophy of it's creator (differs a lot from it's use in all editors).
This tag is really smart as long as circumstances are middle-european.
In Spain, the scheme may be inadequate.

Have a look on my user page:
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/User_talk:Tmeller
The complexity:usecase=* scheme is no standard as well but may be closer to what you aim at.

Currently it is simply put a good idea to be consistent in what you do.
It doesn't matter so much how you do it. There will be need to get it fixed someday anyway.
Create a stylesheet of you own and make others in your surroundings tag accordingly.

There is no 'wrong', as there is no 'right' as well.

:-|

-------- Original-Nachricht --------
> Datum: Fri, 26 Mar 2010 15:28:40 +0100
> Von: Xan <dxpublica at telefonica.net>
> An: newbies at openstreetmap.org
> Betreff: Re: [OSM-newbies] highway=path, type={primary,secundary}?

> En/na Jonathan Bennett ha escrit:
> > On 25/03/2010 20:20, Xan wrote:
> >   
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> Is there any way of marking the "importance" of a path? Clearly in the 
> >> forest there are primary paths and secondary paths (which begin from
> the 
> >> primary paths). Something like type=primary, type=secondary, ...?
> >>     
> >
> > The standard reply to this question is "important to who, and why?".
> >
> > While I know what you're trying to map, you should do it in terms that
> > are easily verifiable, such as the width of the track and the surface.
> > Imposing an arbitrary hierarchy on the tracks doesn't really add any
> > usable information, since I don't know the criteria you've used to
> > determine what's "primary" and what's "secondary".
> >
> > See http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Verifiability for another
> > description of the problem with using tags like importance.
> >   
> Yes, primary and secondary is "arbitrary". The width is much appropiate. 
> How can I add the width and the surface of the path? Can I add that the 
> path is not clean (there are trees or bushes in difficulting the pass 
> through).
> 
> Thanks,
> Xan.
> 
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