[talk-au] Talk-au Digest, Vol 116, Issue 11

[Warren]

Thank you all

I have a clearer picture now.


On 10/02/2017 8:00 PM, talk-au-request at openstreetmap.org wrote:
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> Subject: Re: [talk-au] When is a Road a Track
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> Do you mean without seeing them yourself Warren ?  I personally think
> that you should only correct another mapper's work if you have
> personally seen something that needs correction. I am sure there are
> some exceptions. But here, in particular, you seem to have "negative"
> information.
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> Its also worth remembering that highway= indicates the purpose of the
> road or track, a number of other tags indicate its condition. In theory ....
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> David
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> On 10/02/17 10:51, Warren wrote:
>> I have asked this question before but did not really get a clear answer.
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>> I am working off the Western Australian Main Roads data checking
>> against the OSM road attributes.  Occasionally I come across lines
>> that are classed in OSM as highway:unclassified or highway:residential
>> that do not appear on the Main Roads data base.
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>> I would argue that these are named tracks rather than roads but I
>> wanted to check others opinion.
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>> Do I leave them alone or change the classification to highway:track?
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