[Tagging] Highway classification in Antarctica

[Juan Pablo Tolosa Sanzana]

There are also several places like Tristan da Cunha with only highway=unclassified/residential. In any case it does not seem the best solution to copy specific decisions from other local communities. Reading associated definitions the unclassified value seems to be the best fit for King George Island.
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:highway%3Dunclassified

Civilian residents of Villa Las Estrellas are basically the families of the Chilean Air Force members or other special staff, they do not compose the group of external normal people. Probably King George Island operates more like a private area.

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De: Fernando Trebien <fernando.trebien at gmail.com>
Enviado: viernes, 26 de abril de 2024 9:07
Para: Tag discussion, strategy and related tools <tagging at openstreetmap.org>
Asunto: Re: [Tagging] Highway classification in Antarctica

On Fri, 26 Apr 2024 at 03:16, Juan Pablo Tolosa Sanzana
<jptolosanzana at outlook.cl> wrote:
> There are no road network in King George Island, only a few short roads to serving research stations.

What is the minimum number of roads needed for a set of ways to
qualify as a road network?

Consider Tuvalu, listed by Wikipedia as having one of the smallest
road networks in the world.[1] It has a population of around 6
thousand people. Its main island, Fongafale, has one main road that
passes by an airport and only a few other local roads (streets). In
OSM, the main road is mapped as highway=primary.

For comparison, Niue has around 1,700 inhabitants. Its capital town,
Alofi, has around 600 inhabitants, and its other main villages have
around 200 people or fewer each. Niue's main villages are linked by an
unnamed highway=secondary in OSM and the smaller ones are linked by
highway=tertiary. For example, the route from Alofi to Lakepa, a
village of 87 people, is highway=tertiary. Niue has fewer people and
more roads than Tuvalu. Which of these factors allows using
highway=tertiary or higher?

Other examples include Filicudi island in Italy, with 235 inhabitants,
where one unnamed highway=tertiary road connects its main villages,
with only a few local roads branching off from it, and Agathonisi
island in Greece, which has the same pattern.

[1] https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FList_of_countries_by_road_network_size&data=05%7C02%7C%7Cba3d9ce597444c7d2bf108dc65f2e103%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C638497341035666039%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&sdata=yVa4TWqJSnSd3z0ECId04Wu8aZG5wigNN9g3gEcO50M%3D&reserved=0<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_road_network_size>

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Fernando Trebien

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