We as a UK community, certainly from the countryside mapping point of view tend to be walkers and cyclists. We see a track, we know its a track because the tagging language of OSM is after all our native language.
Take for example http://trigpoint.myzen.co.uk/photodump/20201212_150029.jpg This is https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/718122173/history It was originally mapped as a track, which is correct IMHO, I would not drive my car with low profile tyres here although I have both ridden my town and trail bike and walked here. Mapping as these as tracks has served us as a community well over the years. We have no use-case for them other than as walkers/cyclists and our allies, the horse riders. Recently paid mappers have started changing many of these tracks to service roads, because the wiki says that tracks are for agricultural and forestry use and as these tracks lead to farms and other properties they cannot be tracks I suspect one of the issues we are seeing goes back to the first version of the highway=track wiki page which is where the Agriculture/Forestry restriction appeared, although until these edits began to appear I had never had cause to read the wiki to find out what a track is, or to challenge the restrictive definition. My 10p worth. Phil (trigpoint) _______________________________________________ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb
