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

Elizabeth Dodd edodd at billiau.net
Sun Dec 27 23:25:14 GMT 2009


On Mon, 28 Dec 2009, Anthony wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 27, 2009 at 5:13 PM, Liz <edodd at billiau.net> wrote:
> > On Sun, 27 Dec 2009, Anthony wrote:
> > >  I suppose all
> > > the bicyclists in OSM would disagree with that, but they don't have
> > > much use for primary/secondary/tertiary designations either, do they?
> >
> > Of course we do, we want to avoid certain roads
>
> Which ones, and by what definitions of primary/secondary/tertiary?

We want to avoid roads with too much traffic.
None of these maps are going to check for hills
It doesn't matter whose definition of primary/secondary/tertiary
because the object is ride on the lower grade roads having sent all the 
motorised traffic on the higher grade roads :)

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That's easy to fix, but I can't be bothered.





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