[OSM-talk] Undiscussed (?) edits removing lesser-used highway=* tags

Andrew Guertin andrew.guertin at uvm.edu
Tue Nov 10 01:18:26 UTC 2015


On 11/09/2015 01:39 AM, GerdP wrote:
> Andrew Guertin wrote
>> As a negative example, they seem to have deemed the tag
>> highway=residential_link bad, and replaced it with either
>> highway=service or highway=residential.
>> (https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/18820600/history,
>> https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/262798921/history).
>
> I think this should really be discussed in the tagging list.
> I only know a discussion in Germany which came to the
> conclusion that tags like unclassified_link, residential_link and
> service_link make not much sense:
> http://forum.openstreetmap.org/viewtopic.php?id=26083
> The wiki doesn't mention those _link types as well, and my
> understanding is that only major roads have a link (if link
> in english means what we call "Abfahrt/ Auffahrt" in Germany,
> I would describe it as a lane that allows to decrease/increase
> speed.

I agree the tagging list is the place to discuss this, I'll follow up 
there.

> Andrew Guertin wrote
>> An in-between example: on
>> https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/38089492/history,
>> highway=stepping_stones was replaced with highway=path. While this helps
>> consumers use the data, it loses information that should have been kept
>> (perhaps with surface=* or something similar).
>
> I've asked for a comment from the original mapper now. I agree that a
> surface tag
> might be missing, I just recognized this a case of a wrongly mapped ford, so
> I changed
> the tag to path and added a ford=stepping_stones to the node which connects
> the highway with the waterway.

Ah! I missed that you added the ford tag. I no longer have any objection 
to this.

--Andrew



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