[OSM-talk] What's the policy on unsurveyed roads from imagery?

Roy Wallace waldo000000 at gmail.com
Sat Dec 26 23:14:38 GMT 2009


On Sun, Dec 27, 2009 at 2:08 AM, Anthony <osm at inbox.org> wrote:
>
> I'm perfectly fine with letting the people in council waste their time with
> subjective categorization and then either 1) copying the results, if they
> have some sort of legal distinction; or 2) ignoring them altogether, if they
> don't.

If you're not comfortable with choosing a highway value, then just
using highway=road is a great idea - i.e. let those who are
comfortable sort it out later. Recently, I've taken this approach also
when tracing pathways - I just use highway=path now (plus surface=*).
I'm OVER the cycleway/footway thing for now... :)

> I have this insane theory that if the renderers just outright refused to
> color roads without speed limit tags, these tags would get added a lot
> quicker.  Once you have roads and speed limits, the question of "which roads
> are the quickest way to go usually" can be determined by an algorithm.

Yeah - but hey, if you want maxspeeds to be entered, just go and do it.

> I think it is useful to point out the problems every once in a while,
> though.

Yup!




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