[Tagging] Highway classification in Antarctica

[Brian M. Sperlongano]

I'm sure the answer to this question... CRITICAL ... to many data
consumers...

Anyways:

This:
https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/1159748452
seems fine, if you can convince me that it's actually a road.  Clearly the
most significant road in the area...

It's essentially the only road *grin* between the two most significant
settlements on an entire continent...


On Wed, Apr 24, 2024 at 3:57 PM Mateusz Konieczny via Tagging <
tagging at openstreetmap.org> wrote:

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> Apr 24, 2024, 17:55 by fernando.trebien at gmail.com:
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> On Wed, 24 Apr 2024 at 12:06, Mateusz Konieczny via Tagging <
> tagging at openstreetmap.org> wrote:
> > Antarctica has no cities, towns and villages.
>
> McMurdo Station, the largest and most important research station in
> Antarctica, has been mapped as place=town since 2009, then briefly as
> place=hamlet from 2012 to 2015, and then place=town again since 2015 with a
> brief edit war trying to map it as place=city. Should this be fixed?
>
> in my opinion yes, but I am not willing to invest time to convince people
> or edit it
> (there is a lot of more obvious changes that should be done, I am cleaning
> some
> vandalism right now, this is at most dubious tagging for renderer - and
> far far less
> obvious than many other I have seen)
>
> (at least it is not tagged as place=city)
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> > No people live there permanently.
>
> There is a permanent civilian population in the Chilean Villa Las
> Estrellas and another in the Argentinian Fortín Sargento Cabral (Esperanza
> Base).
>
> Interesting. I was trying to dig into it and found more conflicted info.
> (it seems that population is year-round there but specific people are not
> living there
> permanently and this places are setup to increase strength of territorial
> claims)
>
> And then there are the so-called
> “permanent” research stations, staffed year-round, never empty, but which
> rotate staff regularly. I think these stations qualify as settlements and
> should not be treated as collections of empty structures. They can be seen
> as temporary workplaces, similar to ports or mines, which, despite not even
> having a "population" staying overnight, still influence decisions about
> highway classification.
>
> I agree.
>
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