[OSM-talk] Fwd: [ordnancemaps] Re: trivia - road generally less than 4m wide

[Richard Fairhurst]

Just for info, you might like to know that we're not the only people  
who have difficulties in knowing how to tag stuff.

On the ordnancemaps mailing list, there's some discussion about a  
yellow (metalled, minor) road, shown in Ordnance Survey mapping of  
the Brecon Beacons, which is seemingly not connected to any other  
roads at either end. One suggestion appears to be that OS get their  
information from local authorities, and as it crosses a county  
boundary, the two councils have 'tagged' it differently.

The group is hosted at Yahoo for anyone who wants to explore further,  
but here's an excerpt which seemed very relevant to some of the  
discussions we've had here:

> From: ALAN BOWRING <alan.bowring at btinternet.com>
>
> It is perhaps inevitable that some inconsistencies will arise when  
> two overlapping approaches to road depiction are used - one relying  
> on the physical character of the route - principally its width -  
> and the other relying on its status as a public highway.
> [...]
> Yours hoping for a clearer system of depiction for roads and paths.

cheers
Richard
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