[Tagging] Use of highway=track vs highway=service cemeteries, parks, allotment gardens, golf courses, and recreation areas

Joseph Eisenberg joseph.eisenberg at gmail.com
Sun Feb 28 17:14:35 UTC 2021


That would be: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Highway_Tag_Africa

Also see: "East Africa Tagging Guidelines:"

https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/East_Africa_Tagging_Guidelines

– Joseph Eisenberg

On Sun, Feb 28, 2021 at 8:47 AM Bert -Araali- Van Opstal <
bert.araali.afritastic at gmail.com> wrote:

> We don't have specific local tagging guidelines, except the Highway Africa
> tagging, we are working on that creating local working groups. But that's a
> long process as you will understand.
>
> I will do my best to make a summary of what I found through the comments
> and discussions here, not representing how it is used across the world, I
> lack the means and resources to do such a broad investigation. But if a
> such a summary can help, very willing to do that but will take one to a few
> days.
>
> Greetings,
>
> Bert Araali
> On 28/02/2021 19:08, brad wrote:
>
> "That is why in Africa we consider access keys only to be used for legal
> access restrictions"    That's the way most of us do it also, and that's
> the way the wiki is written.
> I'm not clear on what you do differently in Africa,  Is there a document
> which describes the methodology?   If not, perhaps a quick informal summary
> of the differences here would be helpful.
>
> On 2/28/21 6:03 AM, Bert -Araali- Van Opstal wrote:
>
> And even adding on that, what about a non-paved road with so many potholes
> or turning into a mudpool during the rainy season that it can't be
> travelled anymore by any vehicle.  Should I put motor-vehicle=no ?
> Even the bollards here get driven over, a bollard made of just a wooden
> stem won't stop a truck driver from running over it, if their is no
> signage. Again local culture, local perception.
> If there are trees growing next to a road, most of the drivers go there
> with a chainsaw, we cut it.  Should I use an access key to indicate that
> the road might be to narrow for a truck ?
>
> That is why in Africa we consider access keys only to be used for legal
> access restrictions, not physical. For that we use other keys like
> smoothness, intermittent, seasonal etc.... .  That is why we have in the
> largest part of the world a completely different approach of highway
> tagging and that is why I would prefer to see it changed or at least forked
> (not just a "buried" continental variant), because what we have now as the
> global OSM standard is not usable, is not applicable in the rest, which is
> "the most" part of the world.
> On 28/02/2021 13:50, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote:
>
> sent from a phone
>
>
> On 28 Feb 2021, at 09:53, Minh Nguyen <minh at nguyen.cincinnati.oh.us> <minh at nguyen.cincinnati.oh.us> wrote:
>
> * A particular barrier=bollard could be motorcar=no regardless of signage or legal prohibitions, just based on the width on either side of the bollard.
>
> this is easy, but what about motorcycle=no? Could depend on the jurisdiction/situation
>
>
> Cheers Martin
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