[OSM-talk] talk Digest, Vol 77, Issue 60

[Donald Campbell II]

Well that's how *I* map out in the third world.  :-)   (user donaciano)

Unsurfaced roads are very common and still considered streets, roads, etc...
even the largest highway in the country is unsurfaced for many miles.  In
fact I've never even tagged a surface out here since it's normal for streets
to be blocked by a huge sand pile while someone is building a house and you
just have to back up and go around the other way sometimes.  Or part of a
road is washed away and you simply can't pass til someone fixes it.  You'd
be an idiot to try and follow computerized directions here and expect it to
be perfect.

Now where's my elephant??  :-)
-Don.


> Message: 10
> Date: Sat, 22 Jan 2011 07:29:52 +0530
> From: Kenneth Gonsalves <lawgon at thenilgiris.com>
> To: Steve Doerr <steve.doerr at blueyonder.co.uk>
> Cc: OSM Talk <talk at openstreetmap.org>
> Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] highway=unsurfaced
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> On Fri, 2011-01-21 at 19:30 +0000, Steve Doerr wrote:
> > > Nothing official, but it would be very unusual for anybody to call
> > > something that wasn't surfaced a road.
> >
> > Unless they were expatriates in a third-world country?
>
> please refrain from such remarks - I suppose you think we map by snake
> charming while riding on elephant back?
> --
> regards
> KG
> http://lawgon.livejournal.com
> Coimbatore LUG rox
> http://ilugcbe.techstud.org/
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