[OSM-np] Road standards

[Sakar Pudasaini]

Simple is good but not having a separate classification the streets around
Ason and like areas seems like a step too far. They are in a conceptual
category other than "residential"... they are crowded with pedestrians,
with road side vendors etc who actually have priority over cars. From a
purely practical perspective I'd want routing tools to avoid those kinds of
streets... I mean you could push through those areas with a car, I've seen
it done, but that does not make it a good idea.

http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Living_street says "Routing and
navigation software *might* try to avoid such areas when navigating cars."
So if we going to try and fit our requirements to western categories, this
might be the best one we have. Unless of course there is an additional
attribute that achieves the same effect.

-s

On Thu, Aug 23, 2012 at 7:00 AM, Rajeev Amatya <rajeevamatya at gmail.com>wrote:

> Hi guys,
> Bibek and I worked on the road standards. We want to finalize it by
> Friday. It would be a nice idea to make it as simple as possible, while
> covering most of the common roads of Kathmandu and Nepal. We also talked to
> OSMers in Munich and got some good feedbacks from them. Living Street is a
> very European concept and probably does not apply to Nepal. Might be a good
> idea to not use it at all. Also, most of the routing apps are based upon
> European roads, so it would be a good idea to try to comply as much as
> possible so that we use them with minimum code change.
> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Nepal:Roads#Local_Roads
>
> Please have a look and start a discussion if you don't agree. But let's
> get it done quickly. Thanks a lot.
> Rajeev
>
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