I'm sure the answer to this question... CRITICAL ... to many data consumers...
Anyways: This: https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/1159748452 seems fine, if you can convince me that it's actually a road. Clearly the most significant road in the area... It's essentially the only road *grin* between the two most significant settlements on an entire continent... On Wed, Apr 24, 2024 at 3:57 PM Mateusz Konieczny via Tagging < [email protected]> wrote: > > > > Apr 24, 2024, 17:55 by [email protected]: > > On Wed, 24 Apr 2024 at 12:06, Mateusz Konieczny via Tagging < > [email protected]> wrote: > > Antarctica has no cities, towns and villages. > > McMurdo Station, the largest and most important research station in > Antarctica, has been mapped as place=town since 2009, then briefly as > place=hamlet from 2012 to 2015, and then place=town again since 2015 with a > brief edit war trying to map it as place=city. Should this be fixed? > > in my opinion yes, but I am not willing to invest time to convince people > or edit it > (there is a lot of more obvious changes that should be done, I am cleaning > some > vandalism right now, this is at most dubious tagging for renderer - and > far far less > obvious than many other I have seen) > > (at least it is not tagged as place=city) > > > > No people live there permanently. > > There is a permanent civilian population in the Chilean Villa Las > Estrellas and another in the Argentinian Fortín Sargento Cabral (Esperanza > Base). > > Interesting. I was trying to dig into it and found more conflicted info. > (it seems that population is year-round there but specific people are not > living there > permanently and this places are setup to increase strength of territorial > claims) > > And then there are the so-called > “permanent” research stations, staffed year-round, never empty, but which > rotate staff regularly. I think these stations qualify as settlements and > should not be treated as collections of empty structures. They can be seen > as temporary workplaces, similar to ports or mines, which, despite not even > having a "population" staying overnight, still influence decisions about > highway classification. > > I agree. > > _______________________________________________ > Tagging mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging >
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