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

[Jean-Marc Liotier]

On Tue, 14 Nov 2017 21:26:02 +0000 (UTC)
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

I second Pierre's reference to the Highway Tag Africa. Residential
streets mapped as highway=service an all too common error in African
cities.

Same problem here as for highway=living_street - a conversation we had
a year ago:
https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk/2016-December/thread.html#77191

Mappers from more developed countries expect a residential street to
look like their idea of a residential street - for example the lack
of sidewalks confuses them... But it is a residential road nevertheless.

I'm partial to always using surface=* but maybe sidewalk=no will also
help make confused residential mappers happier with tagging a six-meter
wide sandy residential street with no sidewalk as
highway=residential... (I just wrote that and realize I wrote almost
the same thing last year... I'm getting old
https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk/2016-December/077195.html)