Hi Biff,

It is just that in Zambia, although they have toll gates and the roads are not toll roads in the true sense of a toll road. It is supposed to be a means of raising money for the maintenance of the road network. In Europe you would be able to travel the entire continent without using a toll road while still using a decent road, in Zambia you could not do it without serious 4 wheel drive. Many of what would appear to be roads in the imagery and are sometimes mapped as roads by remote mappers are nothing more than tracks. My concern is that OSM data is used by routing software and it is possible to request this software to provide a route between 2 points avoiding tolls. In this case in Zambia it would then route you down some pretty impassable tracks. Sometimes what is correct technically as per Western definitions is not correct elsewhere. My personal feeling is not to classify any roads in Zambia as toll roads as technically they are not and nobody in Zambia thinks of them as true toll roads. 