I totally agree with you, Joost. The international wiki [1] is very clear: "Roads for mostly *agricultural or forestry uses*. To describe the quality of a track, see tracktype <http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:tracktype>=*. Note: Although tracks are often rough with unpaved surfaces, this tag is not describing the quality of a road but its use. Consequently, if you want to tag a general use road, use one of the general highway values <http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Map_Features#Roads> instead of track. " The Belgian wiki is stating it the other way around for (in my opinion) no reason whatsoever. Tracks should be only tagged at the countryside or in forests. Each time I see something tagged as a track in a city it makes me cringe. Absolutely in favor of aligning the Belgian wiki with the international standard. For me a simple copy-paste of the international wiki would be the best solution. I don't see why that definition needs to be adapted for Belgium. Why invent something that is slightly different?
[1]: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Map_Features#Special_road_types On Tue, Dec 22, 2015 at 8:37 AM, joost schouppe <joost.schou...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi all, > > I was looking at this page: > http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/WikiProject_Belgium/Conventions/Highways > > And I saw only unpaved roads are supposed to be tagged as track. I've been > seeing quite a few rural roads which only allow agricultural vehicles and > only lead to fields. They look to me essentially as paved tracks. In most > of the world (i.e. outside of Europe) what the road is used for trumps road > quality when it comes to classification. > > Shouldn't this "Unpaved roads with traces of motor traffic or accessible > to motor traffic" be replaced by something like "Paths which show use of > occasional motor traffic, or are designed to do so and that don't prohibit > such use. Generally unpaved and used to access forests or agricultural > fields." > > -- > Joost @ > Openstreetmap <http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/joost%20schouppe/> | > Twitter <https://twitter.com/joostjakob> | LinkedIn > <https://www.linkedin.com/pub/joost-schouppe/48/939/603> | Meetup > <http://www.meetup.com/OpenStreetMap-Belgium/members/97979802/> | Reddit > <https://www.reddit.com/u/joostjakob> | Wordpress > <https://joostschouppe.wordpress.com/> > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-be mailing list > Talk-be@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-be > > -- "Den som ikke tror på seg selv kommer ingen vei." - Thor Heyerdahl
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