[Tagging] Quality and the Openstreetmap value chain

[Mateusz Konieczny]

May 13, 2020, 00:18 by graemefitz1 at gmail.com:

> One in particular, roads in remote areas - yes, it's a dirt road, connecting very small centres of population / remote "farms" (if it's still a "farm" when it's bigger in area than some countries > ‽> ) only, so it "can't" be important
>
Dirt road may be highway=trunk if it is the main road of national road system.

Muddy road, not even surface=compacted is highway=primary in some region.


>  so it doesn't appear on OSM till you zoom right in,
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is it mistagged as highway=track? Then it is a data issue, not rendering issue.

>  > but>  it's also the > only>  "main" road for 1000 k's in any direction, so you would think that it should be shown at high level zoom?
>
Is it correctly mapped with proper highway tag?

> Same, same with the (OSM) villages / hamlets / remote dwellings that this road serves. A single building out in the middle of nowhere, in the OSM universe, is too small & insignificant to be noticed, > but>  that pub, with attached service (gas) station, general store & camping ground, is also the major point of civilisation for that 1000 k's!, so how important is it in real life to those people who are travelling through that area? Extremely!
>
This is sadly a hard to resolve rendering issue. Special purpose rendering of OSM data
may be helpful for such areas.

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