[OSM-talk] rural highway tagging: residential or track

2010-06-28 Thread Stan Berka
I have frequently a tagging dilemma. See this example: Coburn Rd on this location: http://osm.org/go/z...@yoeg-- (N of US 2). It was tagged as residential, but I've been there two days ago and it's a decent compacted gravel road, almost 2-car wide primarily for agricultural use, although it does

Re: [OSM-talk] rural highway tagging: residential or track

2010-06-28 Thread John Smith
You should have sent this to the tagging list... On 28 June 2010 21:08, Stan Berka stan.be...@gmail.com wrote: I have frequently a tagging dilemma. See this example: Coburn Rd on this location: http://osm.org/go/z...@yoeg-- (N of US 2). It was tagged as residential, but I've been there two

Re: [OSM-talk] rural highway tagging: residential or track

2010-06-28 Thread Maarten Deen
On Mon, 28 Jun 2010 07:08:39 -0400, Stan Berka stan.be...@gmail.com wrote: I have frequently a tagging dilemma. See this example: Coburn Rd on this location: http://osm.org/go/z...@yoeg-- [1] (N of US 2). It was tagged as residential, but I've been there two days ago and it's a decent

Re: [OSM-talk] rural highway tagging: residential or track

2010-06-28 Thread Chris Hill
Stan Berka wrote: I have frequently a tagging dilemma. See this example: Coburn Rd on this location: http://osm.org/go/z...@yoeg-- (N of US 2). It was tagged as residential, but I've been there two days ago and it's a decent compacted gravel road, almost 2-car wide primarily for agricultural

Re: [OSM-talk] rural highway tagging: residential or track

2010-06-28 Thread John Smith
On 28 June 2010 21:27, Maarten Deen md...@xs4all.nl wrote: Unclassified with paved=no or surface=gravel? I was recently exploring Siberia (behind my computer!) and saw some primary roads where it was obvious from a website (by that mapper) that these were sand and dirt roads. So I wouldn't

Re: [OSM-talk] rural highway tagging: residential or track

2010-06-28 Thread Pieren
On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 1:30 PM, Chris Hill o...@raggedred.net wrote: If it doesn't have houses along it I don't think it is residential. So I think your choice falls between highway=track and highway=unclassified, if it is driven along by Joe Public then I'd use unclassified. You can add

Re: [OSM-talk] rural highway tagging: residential or track

2010-06-28 Thread Greg Troxel
I have frequently a tagging dilemma. See this example: Coburn Rd on this location: http://osm.org/go/z...@yoeg-- (N of US 2). It was tagged as residential, but I've been there two days ago and it's a decent compacted gravel road, almost 2-car wide primarily for agricultural use, although

Re: [OSM-talk] rural highway tagging: residential or track

2010-06-28 Thread John Smith
On 28 June 2010 22:12, Greg Troxel g...@ir.bbn.com wrote: track is more towards you better have 4WD and you ought to have a reason to be using this although these aren't hard rules. You can use normal cars on what I'd consider tracks, but they are usually a lot less maintained and are in