[OSM-talk] Moderating / Quality checking OSM contributions -- was: Re: OSmosa.net run now.., contribution model

[Martin Koppenhoefer]

2011/12/7 Kate Chapman <kate at maploser.com>:
> I wonder if custom presets could help with the road classification.
> We've had the same problem in parts of Indonesia, but that is because
> the road classifications are simply translated.  Translating the word
> primary doesn't mean much for the type of road it is.  Changing the
> word used in the preset to the specific known government
> classification could help.


That would be an interpretation though. Some time ago we voted about
the highway-classification and decided that it shouldn't necessarily
corrispond to the local government classification, that's why the
presets usually are translated and don't associate a certain road type
to local government classification (usually there is more then one
government-classification, the one visible at the road is (where I
know of) the one of the maintaining entity, which is not in every case
the classification of importance of the connection, as planning
engineers see it).

cheers,
Martin