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#nsroadimport #thailand Added unclassified, residential, track, service ways. Modified existing ways for better connectivity.

Closed about 7 years ago by VLD011

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• Comment from Beddhist almost 6 years ago

  Way 524747125 is clearly unpaved. This is what it looks like on the ground: https://www.mapillary.com/map/im/OwqAoRkXf0F_J2uKaHjR1Q

• Comment from Beddhist almost 6 years ago

  Ways 524747117 & 524747118 are both dirt tracks.

• Comment from Beddhist almost 6 years ago

  Ways 524747147, the N-S section of 524747105, 524747145, 524747244, 524747158, 524747157, 524747154, 524747153, 524747160, 524747130 are all dirt. There are probably many more, but for this one a mass-tagging as track is in order. This is what I mean when I say that the map is "polluted" with roads that are mostly farm tracks. You can forget about auto-routing in this area now.

• Comment from stephankn almost 6 years ago

  Beddhist, I checked way 52049156. From aerial it is not visible whether this is a track or a residential. Even it could be a service driveway to the building on the east.

  Just to be explicit as it sounds a bit like you suggested to automatically convert everything unpaved into an agricultural road: This is not the definition of a track. "roads for mostly agricultural use, forest tracks etc". What it clearly misses is the "surface=unpaved" tag. With me having seen similar roads having official Soi x signs, they could well be residentials.

• Comment from stephankn almost 6 years ago

  The others are a bit more borderline, as they could serve the purpose of providing access to the fields, or a service road to reach the farm building. Certainly for roads which could be used as a "via" shortcut by routing software, a bit more caution is needed before even mapping such roads without proper ground truth.

• Comment from Beddhist almost 6 years ago

  Sorry, there has been a paste error, that way number is not one I commented on.

  No, I'm not concerned whether a particular track is a road or not. Even on the ground I often can't tell and even my wife can't tell me whether a particular piece of concrete way in our village is a public road or a private driveway. What I am pointing out is a multitude of residential and unclassified roads that are implicitly paved, that are in reality mud and therefore stuffing up routing, or even just planning a trip. Adding surface=unpaved to all of them is a good idea and preferable over a mass-revert. There will not be too many that we need to fix manually after that.

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