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

[Kate Chapman]

Martin,

I'm not sure why that makes sense.  Saying to people "Okay we know you
call these types of roads national government roads, well in OSM we
call them primary.  So let's create a completely new vocabulary in
your country that nobody will remember."

There are a lot of road classifications already in the wiki for
example here is the one for the US:

http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/United_States_Road_Classification

And here is one for Korea:

http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Korea_Road_Classification

Maybe we are just not understanding each other.

-Kate

On Wed, Dec 7, 2011 at 9:03 PM, Martin Koppenhoefer
<dieterdreist at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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