[OSM-talk-be] First mapping questions

[Jo]

Philippe Piquer schreef:
> Based on GM, it's obviously not an Nxx , it's a a 'simple' street
>
> I would tag it as
> highway=residential
> name=Heerestraat
> lanes=2
> cycleway=lane (or track)
>
> If when you say footway , you mean 'voetpas','trottoir','sidewalk' 
> then so far it's not yet mapped so I would leave footway out.
>
> primary,secondary,tertiary ... there's no clear decision on this for 
> Belgium, I go with Nx-Nxx as primary, Nxxx as secondary and leave 
> tertiary for important local routes , when the route ref get a letter 
> postfix (as N7a) , I downgrade one level so I would tag this as a 
> secondary (Nxxx -> tertiary)...
>
> unclassified, residential is very unclear , I try to put residential 
> for streets with many houses , and unclassifieds for those with a lot 
> od cows ;)
>
> About cities , I think Leuven is not a bad example , or Lessines but I 
> did it so I'm partial  :)
Thank you. I guess I'll have to have a look at Lessines... Cimm did most 
of the footwork for Leuven, Heverlee and Oud-Heverlee in 2006. I took 
care of Kessel-Lo, Korbeek-Lo and other areas around Leuven and 
surroundings and I improved on Cimm's work in the end of 2007. I'm not 
entirely sure, whether what I did with the ring around Leuven is 
correct, but I think it's done in the right spirit. There are clearly 
two distinct parts on the ring. A part where the maximum speed is 50 and 
a part where the maxspeed is 90 and where there are exits and bridges 
like on a highway (autosnelweg, autoroute). So I turned these parts into 
highway=trunk to differentiate them from the other part of the ring 
where the crossings are on the same level with traffic lights.

Then I tried to decide which are the main arteries in and out of Leuven 
and made those tertiary. Almost all the other streets inside of Leuven 
and deelgemeentes are residential. Some very narrow streets are 
highway=minor (Begijnhof, dead end streets of which the name often ends 
in gang), but apparently that's not to be used.

Outside of the city I tend to tag all the streets that don't fall into 
primary, secondary and tertiary as unclassified, except if they are only 
passable by one car a the time, then I use the forbidden minor. If they 
are paved and meant for bicycles they get highway=cycleway, of course. 
If they are unpaved, they get highway=track. And if they have 
(kasseien/pavées) they get surface=cobblestone. I don't know what to do 
about the ones that have these annoying (for bicycles) 'siersteentjes'. 
They are like minicobblestone and I try to ride in the smooth surfaced 
gutters in between. Oh yes, winkelwandelstraat becomes highway=pedestrian.

I hope this helps,

Polyglot