yes, yes, yes - this is the most sane summary of the road/track debate I've seen in quite a while. Of course, it also reopens the track/path argument, but I'll leave that to others to battle out.
On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 12:59 PM, Dale Puch <dale.p...@gmail.com> wrote: > I have been reading thru these posts and havn't seen a consensus/summary > yet. In my view it should be reasonably straight forward based on the tags > we have. The point is to describe what is actually there. > > highway= is for the type of road regardless of condition. A paved surface > is assumed unless otherwise stated. > If it does not have a name (and thus no addresses), it should be a > track. This would typically be a 1 lane (total) or possible wide enough for > 2. This probably assumes an unpaved surface by default. > > See also Tracktype= for further track classification. > http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:tracktype > > Surface= is for describing the condition of the road when it does not match > the assumed default. Unpaved works but isn't that descriptive. Gravel, > dirt ect. would be a better choice. > > Access= if it needs to be tagged private or other than full public access. > > If there are further situations that need to be tagged, we probably want to > either apply more tags to clarify the conditions, or better yet create a new > subset of tags for specific use. I'm thinking of someone wanting to start > tagging offroad trails for bikes, or 4wheel drive ect. I would think > because of the narrowed focus of something like that it should be well > separate from what most cars can drive. Sort of an oxymoron off-road > roads.... :) > > And as usual if other applications do not use the tags right, we need to > e-mail the authors and ask for a change to fit the tags. I'm sure they > prefer that to digging in the wiki to see if someone started using something > new/different. > > -- > Dale Puch > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-us mailing list > Talk-us@openstreetmap.org > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us > >
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