On Wed, 24 Apr 2024, 20:31 Brian M. Sperlongano, <zelonew...@gmail.com> wrote: > if you can convince me that it's actually a road.
It is clearly an ice road.[1][2] It is made of compacted ice, it was built over two years by levelling snow and filling in crevasses, it is maintained/rebuilt every summer and is used by heavy tractors pulling sleds to resupply Amundsen-Scott. In 2013, someone pedaled a tricycle on it all the way to the South Pole. Its Wikipedia article describes it as a road four times.[3] Wikipedia describes a "road" as "a thoroughfare for the conveyance of traffic that mostly has an improved surface for use by vehicles."[4] And since we have surface=ice in OSM, an improved surface can be made of such material. The OSM wiki redirects "road" to "highway" and defines highway as "any road, route, way, or thoroughfare on land which connects one location to another and has been paved or otherwise improved, including by mere trampling by a sufficient number of humans, to allow travel in some way, including by motorised vehicles, cyclists, pedestrians, horse riders, and others".[5] Which of these definitions are not met by the South Pole Traverse? [1] https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:ice_road [2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kI2Cxl-L9u4 [3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Pole_Traverse [4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Road [5] https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Highways _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
