Talk:WikiProject Ethiopia

Good to see so much progress!

Regarding tagging, can i suggest for minor/residential roads in Addis:

• highway=residential
• surface=unpaved

I think highway=track is more reserved for rural tracks?

Do we know what roads are supposed to be primary/secondary/tertiary or even trunk? I suppose the ring road is clearly a motorway.

Flor

Good suggestion .. what's primary / secondary etc... I've got no idea. --Alexm 10:58, 2 July 2008 (UTC)

National Parks

Google Maps has data about national parks. It do not think, they traced this data on their own and used maybe public domain sources. Maybe we could use the same sources? --Alexm 12:48, 9 November 2008 (UTC)

Tagging in Developing Countries

Maybe we should set up a scheme, similar to http://www.methodfinder.net/principles9.html for developing countries without official street classification?

baundary tagging

I have seen the proposed boundary marking for Ethiopia. I think a kebele should be at number 8 or 7. I am not sure if it is implemented in openstreetmap yet but online maps in some countries (in norway for example) have a boundary at property level. Since each property is numbered and registered with it's boundaries in central register. This smallest categories are even more important than the bigger boundaries between states and nations in the context of OSM that is It will make easier to identify addresses. Therefore the lowest number should be reserved for the property boundary. Please go to this page and zoom to a street level. http://kart.finn.no/ It would enable people to exchange information by pin pointing the location, which is the whole point of OSM.