[OSM-talk] Planned revert of added surface and tracktype tags without local knowledge in various countries

[Martin Koppenhoefer]

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> On 18. Jul 2020, at 21:11, Michael Reichert <osm-ml at michreichert.de> wrote:
> 
> I am reaching out to the community in
> advance because different people might have a different opinion on how
> reliable tracktype=* needs to be


It will hardly be more reliable than its definition can be universally applied? We are discussing accuracy of tracktype tagging when the whole tracktype tagging scheme differs from region to region and even mapper to mapper.

Maybe in Germany it is sorted out now whether this is commonly regarded to be about surface quality, Ausbauzustand (construction standard) or Erhaltungszustand (state of conservation/maintenance), or maybe a mix of different factors, but I would question whether such local conventions can be internationally expected to be the same.

This is of course also a point against performing such classification in areas where you do not know the on the ground situation, both physically and the local mapping conventions.


Cheers Martin