[OSM-talk-be] Introduction

[Jo]

It is true that we tag what we find 'on the ground'. on the other hand, it's
also true that we don't leave abbreviations. St-Pieters becomes
Sint-Pieters, A. Fierenslaan becomes Alfons Fierenslaan, if we can find out
what the A. stands for, at least. All that to say that I'd prefer to see
Buurtweg xx or Voetweg yy, even when his municipality decided to deviate
from how it's done in the rest of Flanders.

As for highway=minor, I like to use it for asphalt/concrete roads where only
one car can pass at a time. I probably started doing that because they
actually get rendered narrower than unclassified, whereas setting an actual
width on an unclassified has no effect. So, as long as they get rendered, I
wouldn't call them deprecated. Of course, we shouldn't be tagging for the
renderer... sigh. I wasn't aware that it was deprecated though. JOSM with
all its validation doesn't complain about it. It only didn't make it as a
replacement for unclassified.

Polyglot

2011/4/16 Ben Laenen <benlaenen at gmail.com>

> Gerard Vanderveken wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Tags are good.
> > Except segregated = no is only to be used with footway and cycleway.
> > So, delete this tag.
> >
> > The name in full, name = Buurtweg 23
> > I don't know where you get this BW23 from. It is not indicated as such
> > in the atlas:
> > http://gis1.provant.be/Geoloketten/geoloket.jsp?geoloketid=55
>
> The signs in his municipality show it like that. IIRC it's something like
> this
> over there:
>
> VW13 | Blablastraat >
>
> But even then I would chose to write it out in full in the name=* tag like
> name=Voetweg 13
>
> > surface = unpaved is good unless you know it more specific and then you
> > can specify  dirt,  grass, gravel, etc.
> > http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:surface?uselang=nl
> > For tracks you can also use the  tracktype
> >
> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/NL:Map_Features#Type_veldweg_of_bospad
>
> Do watch out linking to those translated pages, even the tags in the
> Netherlands can be different than in Belgium. And these NL:* pages were
> never
> revised for Belgian use.
>
> For highway=track: unlike what it says on that page, *ONLY* use it for
> unpaved
> roads. Anything with asphalt or concrete is either residential of
> unclassified
> (paths can be paved and unpaved).
>
> Furthermore: use track only if some vehicles on four wheels are allowed to
> use
> it (this means that a highway=path can be 10 meters wide if it has signs on
> either side preventing anything other than pedestrians, cyclists, horses or
> mopeds). So if residents or farmers are allowed to use it to go to their
> house
> or fields it becomes a track. But I agree that it's sometimes not all that
> clear.
>
> Ben
>
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