I think the wiki already does a good job at communicating this. iD already goes a step too far calling these "unmaintained track roads" but if anything that would have prevented people tagging as highway=track just because it is maintained, so not a factor in this case.
I think the default renderer does play a role with some people might be tagging for the renderer, but nothing can be done about that from the tagging perspective. I see someone has left a changeset comment, that's the right thing to do, it gives the person who made this change a chance to come back either a counter point on why they really should be highway=track, or a chance for them to learn about their mistake and improve so they don't make it again. If you don't hear back from the comment, you could just go ahead and fix them back to residential if that's how you know they should be. On Sat, 30 May 2020 at 08:12, Mike Thompson <miketh...@gmail.com> wrote: > I know we just had a similar discussion, but I am discovering more and > more cases where mappers have changed every dirt road they can find to > "highway=track". For example, it looks like all of the dirt roads in the > area of this way: https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/17051445 have been > changed to "highway=track", when at least most of them should be > "highway=residential." What can be done to better communicate that OSM has > a functional highway classification system (I did leave a change set > comment, but I doubt it will do any good)? > > Mike > _______________________________________________ > Tagging mailing list > Tagging@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging >
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