I'm sure you can look through this mailing list's history and find all kinds of discussion about it in the past...
Long story short: the unpaved thing was more or less the original usage, then it was changed in some other countries which was set as the international definition and in Belgium we didn't change it. Personally I think the difference unpaved <-> paved for track <-> other road types makes much more sense in Belgium, and also much more objective. Ben On Tuesday 22 December 2015 08:37:35 joost schouppe 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." _______________________________________________ Talk-be mailing list Talk-be@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-be
