I just created some unclassified roads, but I am very, very new to this; please let me know that what I did was O.K.
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I just created some unclassified roads, but I am very, very new to this; please let me know that what I did was O.K.
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Comment from russdeffner on 9 December 2013 at 18:36
Hello, welcome to OSM! Thank you for contributing to the project, especially in these areas impacted by Yolanda/Haiyan. You may be interested in following/participating in the collaborative efforts of the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team here: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Typhoon_Haiyan
In general, if you think you’re improving the map, please do - in this case adding the missing roads as unclassified is better than them not being there. However, if you are using the default Bing imagery, it is outdated and lots of the smaller roads are impassible; see the documentation linked above for areas/ways to get post-disaster imagery as well as related tasks for various areas via the HOT tasking manager - http://tasks.hotosm.org/
Just a couple of things I noticed in your edits; first, please use the changeset comment (i.e. when you save) - this lets other mappers know what you intended to do so we can better give advise - it can be something simple like “added missing road(s)…” Second, you may be using unclassified incorrectly - if you mean “I’m not sure what kind of road this is”, use highway=road; unclassified is actually a meaningful classification. As an example one road you added looked like a driveway, in that case highway=service, service=driveway may be a better classification. See http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Highway for details.
Happy Mapping, =Russ