[Osmf-talk] Tagging standards

[Keitaroh Kobayashi]

> Japan has local rules that _require_ a very rough mountain path near me,
impassable by any vehicle

If I'm understanding this correctly, the path is classified as a
prefectural road but isn't maintained for vehicle use?
I think there should be exceptions for cases like these to match the actual
condition of the road.. I wonder if this has come up in the Japanese OSM
community before?

Keitaroh Kobayashi
keita at kbys.me


On Wed, Oct 19, 2022 at 9:27 AM Jeffrey Friedl via osmf-talk <
osmf-talk at openstreetmap.org> wrote:

> > might make it absolutely appropriate for the same tag to have slightly
> differing meanings in different countries.
>
> Japan has local rules that _require_ a very rough mountain path near me,
> impassable by any vehicle and challenging for a fit person to trek by foot,
> to be tagged "highway=secondary".  To me this seems simply wrong and
> harmful to the goals of OSM.
>
> To me, this is well beyond "slightly different", and I wish OSM had some
> kind of guidelines that would disallow Japan from creating rules like this.
>     Jeffrey
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