[Talk-in] Time for consensus

[Ganesh Krishnamurthy]

Kenneth,

Like others said, it is impractical to keep the roads constantly updated
based on road condition. I would like to bring up another point. If you mark
a portion of a national highway a territiary road, the software (Mikel
correct me if am wrong) will break the highway at the at high level zoom of
the map. We should make the national highways to display uniformly across
the country. Agree with PlaneMad, road conditions can be an overlay (similar
to kayak maps and bikers maps), and not be part of the base map.

Regards,

Ganesh


On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 2:42 AM, Kenneth Gonsalves <lawgon at au-kbc.org>wrote:

> On Thursday 16 October 2008 11:51:58 am Shajeer Mohammed wrote:
> > It is great to have a dedicated person like you who can map and make
> > changes to roads as their condition changes. But for most people
> including
> > me, I rarely go back and vist the same road once its mapped.
>
> not dedication - I travel these roads every day. So can update the
> condition
> daily. Which is the case with all of us - we maintain our areas. Currently
> there are about 10-12 active people in India, but soon there will be
> thousands - in that case daily updates of road conditions is possible. That
> is why we are better than google
>
> > So if we cant
> > come up with once standard lets then come up with 2!. Even though there
> are
> > no standards on construction quality, number of lanes etc..., there is a
> > standard on the ownership of the roads. NHAI owns all National Highways
> and
> > Bypasses. State government PWD owns all state highways and local roads
> are
> > owned by local civic bodies.
> > So looks like the disagreement is on tagging national highways and state
> > highways. I guess we all agree on express ways?
>
> We all agree on expressways - no problem
>
> 1. Trunk - connecting major cities. So we have to agree on major cities:
>
> metros - Mum, Chen, Del and Kol (maybe also bengaluru and hyderabad)
>
> 2. Primary - connecting 2 tier cities to each other and to major cities
>
> 2 tier cities: coimbatore, pune, madurai, mangalore, ahmedabad ...
>
> 3. Secondary - connecting district headquarters to state capitals or other
> district headquarters
>
> 4. Everything else tertiary or less
>
> This is regardless of who owns the road
>
> Within cities - just map using common sense - basically, size of the road
> and
> amount of usage.
>
>
>
> --
> regards
> Kenneth Gonsalves
> Associate
> NRC-FOSS
> http://nrcfosshelpline.in/web/
>
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