On 09/08/2009 01:18 PM, Paul Fox wrote: > alex wrote: > > On 09/06/2009 05:56 PM, Paul Johnson wrote: > > > I would tend to go with highway=track unless the street in question is a > > > gravelled over macadam or some other semi-paved surface mostly because > > > > I would expect that this applies to at least the majority of named roads... > > > > i don't understand. "the majority of named roads" are, of > course, paved.
You're right there. I should have said “The majority of named roads which are not paved with some form of concrete” > i would say that the next most numerous are > simply dirt roads (at least here in new england, and in most of > the US that i've traveled). roads which are partly paved, or > which are "gravel over macadam" (i'm not entirely clear on what > that means) would be a small minority. You can find more on macadam here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macadam I would consider a gravel-paved road (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravel_road) to be not a highway=track in OSM terms, in most cases. Further, I would expect that gravel-paved roads are the most common of non-concrete-paved (including asphalt concrete) named roads, and that most true dirt roads are unnamed. And finally I would agree with you that regardless of their relative numbers, true dirt roads (not gravel) as described at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dirt_road should indeed be highway=track. -Alex Mauer "hawke"
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