Hello cmoffroad,
Thank you and we appreciate for sharing your concerns with us and we would like to give clarification for all your points below. Firstly, we apologize for missing out on adding the query on the forum for TH Campings, our understanding was that once we start a new project, we would start a thread on the forum, but rest assured, we will ensure that all the queries and project updates in Thailand are shared through the forum along with GitHub going forward.
And also note that the Grab Thailand Campaign is not a new one, in fact, we have been doing campaigns here since 2020. Refer https://github.com/GRABOSM/Grab-Data/issues/49. And Yes, recently we have halted the Thailand Campaign for a couple of months as we have some other cities that were prioritized in other SEA countries.
- Conflicting minor road classification and no consistency or internal quality check
Residential: We are tagging the highway as residential for the roads serve as access to housing, without the function of connecting settlements.
- Often lined with housing.
- Roads within the housing/residential areas.
- Used by local people within the residential areas.
- Less speeds compared to unclassified.
- Can be a dead end
- Can also carry traffic between different locations, although they should still be relatively less-traveled roads.
Service:
We are tagging a highway as service when a highway is generally for access to a building, serving a group of buildings at the same area <30mts, service station, beach, campsite, industrial estate, business park, etc. And also commonly used for access to parking, driveways, and alleys.
Overriding existing classifications and taking control of maps
The Grab map data team always respects the community/local mapper edits and retains the edits when mentioned as local knowledge. It is often a judgment call on some of the instances that might be tricky, one thing that would help us would be if the community could mention local knowledge in changeset comments, it’ll help us identify the local mapper edits vs something that is incorrectly tagged by a mapper.
Long roads with unnecessary and exaggerated curves
For the exaggerated curves issue, we have already had a healthy discussion in the past. And we started following to cut down the smooth curves at turns in TH. refer: https://github.com/GRABOSM/Grab-Data/issues/49#issuecomment-728220652, please let us know if you have any concerns on the same.
Thank you for sharing your suggestions and we have added them to our mapping practices in Thailand. Thank You again and happy mappy new year!