The Russian "winter roads" situation is not unique. From what I have read, the same situation applies in some parts of Canada and Alaska.
On March 20, 2014 10:58:01 AM CDT, Fernando Trebien <fernando.treb...@gmail.com> wrote: > In Brazil, these conditions are somewhat often permanent (or at least > expected to be permanent) when they happen. Sometimes it's due to poor > administration, which changes only every 4 years. Sometimes it's due > to poor construction, which costs a lot to fix. Sometimes it's due to > weather, which in many cases is not inconstant through the seasons. > But sometimes they are indeed dynamic/seasonal, though it's rare to > see a large (say, from grade5 to grade1, or from horrible to good > smoothness), so in these cases most people will choose to either > approximate the average or the pessimistic scenario (not so much > different from the average). When a large change happens (in case of a > natural disaster, for instance, floods), it's either temporary (the > situation goes back to normal) or permanent (it takes a long time to > get fixed), but not recurring (if it's fixed within a year, most > people won't expect it to happen again next year at the same place, > but surely it "could" repeat if the fix was poorly conducted). So I > think the case of the Russians (in fact, of "snow") is quite unique. > > On Thu, Mar 20, 2014 at 12:20 PM, Martin Koppenhoefer > <dieterdre...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > 2014-03-20 15:50 GMT+01:00 Fernando Trebien > <fernando.treb...@gmail.com>: > > > >> Perhaps what people worry about here is "how soft" the surface is. > >> There may be various degrees of "softness" to be measured. > > > > > > > > actually to me the problem seems that these properties are somehow > dynamic. > > If the surface is unpaved it will depend a lot on past weather > conditions > > whether a road is nice to use or not. The same road can be an > unsurpassable > > mud inferno or frozen with lots of snow over it so it becomes nice > and > > smooth, all dependent on the season. The russians had proposed a > feature > > "winter_road" to account for some of these features, in different > climatic > > conditions (e.g. with heavy rain periods) we might need additional > tagging > > as well. > > > > cheers, > > Martin > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Tagging mailing list > > Tagging@openstreetmap.org > > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging > > -- John F. Eldredge -- j...@jfeldredge.com "Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that." Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
