[OSM-talk] How to map alleys in African cities?

[john whelan]

That seems very sensible.

Thanks John

On 14 November 2017 at 16:26, Pierre Béland <pierzenh at yahoo.fr> wrote:

> I we follow the Highway Tag Africa wiki page I initiated in 2013, narrow
> highways should be evaluaed on the type of traffic possible
> - highway= residential in residential areas if at least passable by 4
> wheels
> - highway=path if only motorcycles, bicyles and foot traffic is possible.
>
> https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Highway_Tag_Africa
>
> The additions made to the wiki page a few months ago about the width add
> confusion. I think that we should simply move this in a separate section
> giving guidance on possible widths that represent the various types of
> highways.
>
> regard
>
> Pierre
>
>
> Le mardi 14 novembre 2017 16:14:22 HNE, john whelan <jwhelan0112 at gmail.com>
> a écrit :
>
>
> I'm not even sure if this is the best place to raise this but Africa
> covers a lot of countries.
>
> We have some agreement on how to map highways in general Africa but narrow
> residential highways are a problem.  I suspect highway=residential plus a
> width tag might be best.
>
> South Africa I think has local mappers who able to resolve any problems
> but for the rest of Africa given the large number of armchair mappers
> mapping there some guidance would be nice.
>
> Some mappers use highway=service generously.
>
> Is it possible to reach some sort of general concenus?
>
> Thoughts?
>
> Thanks John
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