On 10/8/22 12:06, Graeme Fitzpatrick wrote:
Cleared a note to add a ford / river-crossing to a road in Cape York:
https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/1025490234, & added both a "ford"
node, & also changed the actual river crossing to a track with 4wd
only & similar tags.
I am getting less 'comfortable' with tagging the road class (track in
this and other cases) as an indication of road condition (rough).
A track in Canberra (Way: Forest Drive (37058806) "highway"="track"
"surface"="gravel" "tracktype"="grade2" "width"="5"
https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/37058806) may well be in better
condition than, say,
Way: Great Central Road (186988736) "highway"="primary"
"surface"="unpaved" https://www.openstreetmap.org/way186988736
Way: Tanami Road (188690200) "highway"="primary" "surface"="unpaved"
https://www.openstreetmap.org/way188690200
etc...
The issue is clear ... road classification should be about the
use/importance of the road.
The road condition should be tagged using surface/roughness tags ... the
problem of rendering is the issue that mappers (including me) try to
address some times by tagging for the render... and is hard to resist!
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