[OSM-talk] Collecting various road situations

[Mateusz Konieczny]

There is a decent chance that in near future I will have time to
reimplement
road styling in Default Map Style.

One of the most important problems in designing this style is that the same
rules should work over entire globe, in drastically different locations.
It is impossible to make style work great everywhere, but it is possible
to have it well working in variety of places.

So I want to start work from collecting place of various road situations.

I am currently looking for well mapped areas with:
I) Cities/towns/villages in non-European style (Africa, Asia...?)
II) Where major roads are unpaved.
III) Large amount of unpaved roads, used for motor traffic but major roads
are paved.
IV) Area with many pedestrian roads, living streets, footways...

Note - I am looking for well mapped area. For example in case of
unpaved roads I am not interested in place without tagged surface values
or with highway=track used to mark unpaved roads (this tagging for
renderer is unfortunately really popular).

Also, I am certainly missing some important types of situations.
Below is list of what I prepared so far.

1) European style town
2) European style city
3) high density of motorways and primary roads
4) large area with high road density of many types
5) city with high road density
6) junction of dual carriageways
7) roads with tram lines
8) fully mapped residential area
9) large park/city forest with varied highway types
10) area with large amount of footways
11) spaghetti junction
12) rural area where highway=footway are important
13) rocky mountains with tourism routes
14) forested mountains with tourism routes
15) big pedestrian area
16) large amount of private highways
17) raceway
18) long tunnel
19) long bridge
20) many living streets
21) steps (#1307)
22) Junction=motorway_junction names (#1272)
23) special cases reported to bugtracker

[1] http://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=14/51.2225/18.5594
[2] http://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=15/52.2333/20.9976
[3]
http://www.openstreetmap.org/?mlat=37.413889&mlon=126.566667&zoom=15#map=11/51.3413/6.9097
[4]
http://www.openstreetmap.org/?mlat=51.5147&mlon=-0.1126#map=10/51.5147/-0.1126
[5]
http://www.openstreetmap.org/?mlat=51.5117&mlon=-0.0761#map=14/51.5117/-0.0761
[6]
http://www.openstreetmap.org/?mlat=50.0739&mlon=19.9451#map=15/50.0739/19.9451
[7]
http://www.openstreetmap.org/?mlat=50.0509&mlon=19.9503#map=15/50.0509/19.9503
[8]
http://www.openstreetmap.org/?mlat=50.0296&mlon=19.9189#map=16/50.0296/19.9189
[9]
http://www.openstreetmap.org/?mlat=50.0559&mlon=19.8486#map=14/50.0559/19.8486
[10]
http://www.openstreetmap.org/?mlat=50.0631&mlon=19.9584#map=14/50.0631/19.9584
[11]
http://www.openstreetmap.org/?mlat=52.5102&mlon=-1.8641#map=16/52.5102/-1.8641
[12] http://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=14/53.2134/-1.7983
[13] http://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=14/49.2066/20.0534
[14] http://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=14/49.5502/20.1640
[15], [16] http://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=17/41.90304/12.45402
[17]
http://www.openstreetmap.org/?mlat=42.160833&mlon=12.369167&zoom=15#map=15/42.1608/12.3691
[18]
http://www.openstreetmap.org/?mlat=60.971944&mlon=7.368333&zoom=15#map=12/60.9933/7.3818
[19]
http://www.openstreetmap.org/?mlat=38.7589&mlon=-9.0387&zoom=15#map=13/38.7602/-9.0588
[20] http://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=16/50.0773/20.0382
[21] https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=18/37.44711/24.94306
[22] http://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=13/49.6328/5.9589
[23] https://github.com/gravitystorm/openstreetmap-carto/labels/roads

In addition - it is necessary to consider labels in various writing systems
-
Arabic, Hebrew, Cyrillic, Armenian, Chinese, Japanese (what else?)...
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