Highway=service implies a private road, though; if a public road dead-ends at a single building or facility, it should be =residential or =unclassified, right?
The tracktype= key is also not really applicable to many of the unmaintained roads around here, at least as described on the wiki. The description implies that a track is a continuum from a maintained roadway to a virtually invisible path across a field. The unmaintained roads in this part of the country are usually old roadways that were established before modern engineering standards; many of them go up and down the fall line and have waterbars, washouts, rock ledges, or all of the above. For example: https://scontent-a-lga.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-prn2/t31.0-8/1267970_716253801218_1989759584_o.jpg https://scontent-a-lga.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xfa1/t31.0-8/1266483_716253736348_406630391_o.jpg https://fbcdn-sphotos-e-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-prn2/t31.0-8/1264969_716254075668_897288595_o.jpg https://fbcdn-sphotos-e-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-xpa1/t31.0-8/10317804_767096626788_7562385056086790114_o.jpg All of these photos are unmaintained roads in Vermont. The last one is probably reasonable for a high-clearance, AWD car (e.g. Subaru) in the hands of a competent driver, and definitely should be passable by a skilled driver in a 4x4 pickup or Jeep. The other three would probably require a modified 4x4 and the right skillset. They are also legal right-of-ways, so clearly access=yes for all vehicle types (even though I wouldn't want to get routed down one of those unknowingly). I've been using the smoothness key to provide additional data on such tracks, which I realize is a universally agreed solution, but it's the best one I've found to date; I'd be open to further suggestions. On Thu, Jul 3, 2014 at 11:55 AM, Martin Koppenhoefer <dieterdre...@gmail.com > wrote: > > 2014-07-03 17:36 GMT+02:00 Brad Neuhauser <brad.neuhau...@gmail.com>: > > Just trying to process this: wouldn't a tracktype 1 be tagged as >> unclassified or residential anyway? Or to ask a different way, assuming >> that roads with houses should be tagged as residential, when should one tag >> a sub-tertiary road as track vs. using unclassified? >> > > > You'd always tag it as unclassified, unless it is not a connection road > and is used only for agricultural / forestry purposes. If it is not a > connection road but used to access a certain building / facility, use > service. > > E.g. this is clearly a track: http://binged.it/1odgrTZ > or this: http://binged.it/1j0zEud > > in case of doubt I'd put unclassified ;-) > > cheers, > Martin > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-us mailing list > Talk-us@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us > > -- Kevin Broderick k...@kevinbroderick.com
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