[OSM-talk] Mozambique's living streets

[john whelan]

>Doesn't that feel like Africa already ?   dunno never been there.  It's
-13c tonight and -25c coming up shortly.  There is white stuff on the
ground.

> width and lanes keys could be used to provide info about smaller streets.
Pierre you're talking sense again.

I think we have highlighted the issue and that's really all we can do.
There is a difference between a local mapper with a tape measure and an
armchair mapper mapping from imagery for the first time without reading any
instructions but I can't put my finger on the critical difference.

I think we need boots on the ground to identify alleyways and very narrow
highways and Pierre's suggestion of them using width and lane tags makes a
lot of sense.

Thank you both for your thoughts.  If its currently warmer than -25c over
there I'm very tempted to pick up my tape measure and pop over to measure a
few street widths.

Cheerio John

On 10 December 2016 at 20:17, Pierre Béland <pierzenh at yahoo.fr> wrote:

> width and lanes keys could be used to provide info about smaller streets.
>
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> Pierre
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> *De :* Jean-Marc Liotier <jm at liotier.org>
> *À :* john whelan <jwhelan0112 at gmail.com>
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> *Envoyé le :* samedi 10 décembre 2016 20h10
> *Objet :* Re: [OSM-talk] Mozambique's living streets
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> Legal definition vs."duck typing" - there is a bit of both in
> Openstreetmap tagging... But because "living street" has a precise legal
> definition in Europe, involved mappers chose not to confuse the issue by
> using a different one.
>
> Then there was the question of differentiating large residential streets
> from minor ones... Some bright spark took initiative by tagging a large
> part of Dakar's residential streets as highway=service - that has been
> universally perceived as a very bad idea.
>
> I mostly just highway=residential with a surface=* tag but now that you
> remind me of those discussion, I'm thinking that a key differentiator is
> the presence of a sidewalk. What about:
>
> highway=residential
> surface=ground
> sidewalk=no
>
> Doesn't that feel like Africa already ?
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