[OSM-talk] highway=unsurfaced

[Barnett, Phillip]

Completely off-topic, but 'second world' is really a political term fallen into disuse following the end of the Cold War, and referred to the Communist bloc of nations, rather than what I guess you mean might be a degree of economic development.





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-----Original Message-----
From: edodd at billiau.net [mailto:edodd at billiau.net]
Sent: 22 January 2011 20:45
To: talk at openstreetmap.org
Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] highway=unsurfaced

> 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?
> --

I considered that remark yesterday while driving at > 80kmh on a well made
unsurfaced road in what is probably a second-world country, although the
term has never been commonly used.
My rough method of deciding track or road would be:
A track is made by feet or wheels and is not 'improved'.
A road will have had work done on it to 'improve' the surface, for example
with a grader.



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