[Tagging] Access restrictions and expressway=yes

[Bert -Araali- Van Opstal]

Be careful when you use the term "developed". Local communities become
offended. Developed in which sense, as creating paved highways, as being
able to incorporate natural materials and tracks in a natural
environment, I wouldn't call them developing in general.
They are much more developed in the sense of experience and integration
of highways in a luckily still mostly pristine natural environment. I
can't say that of most of the regions in the western world.
Better use terms like in tropical countries, southern hemisphere etc..,
these countries are much more developed in many senses.
(This is a kind remark as a counterbalance to the western domination :)
). Maybe the HFCS should be regarded as not a favourable development, an
example of a "developing" nation when it comes to climate change and
respect for the environment.

Greetings,


Bert Araali

On 22/02/2021 14:17, Fernando Trebien wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 22, 2021 at 7:48 AM stevea <steveaOSM at softworkers.com> wrote:
>> In a less-developed part of the world, I believe a dirt track can be "logically, locally accurately" tagged highway=secondary, especially as it connects cities or towns.  It might be wide, smooth and allow moderate-to-higher speed of a surprising volume of traffic.
> In some less developed parts of the world, there are even unpaved ways
> classified as trunk in OSM. [1] Canadian tagging guidelines also allow
> unpaved trunk ways there, [2] although I didn't find any on the map.
> Unpaved parts of Iceland's Ring Road were classified as a trunk before
> the paving was completed, and from economic indicators Iceland can't
> really be called "developing".
>
> [1] https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:highway#Assumptions
> [2] https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Canadian_tagging_guidelines#Trunk
>
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