Richard Welty wrote: > agreed. i have spent quite a lot of time in Iowa farming > territory where the road grid consists mostly of high > quality, well maintained gravel roads that are in regular, > heavy use by farm equipment. i generally give these > highway=unclassified, surface=gravel.
Great to see this issue getting some airtime. Obviously it's entirely your choice nationally as to what tags you use, as long as they don't diverge too wildly from the rest of the world. Having a distinction between highway=track and highway=unclassified;surface=gravel is certainly one possibility. It doesn't really matter as long as there's agreement and a will to fix it. I think the other half of the equation, however, is actually getting this fixed across the country. At present it appears to be just a small number of mappers doing it in their areas; the US is a big place, and at the current rate it's not going to be fixed any time soon. Drive-by tools like MapRoulette are generally a good solution for systemic data quality problems, but in this case I think the problem's too big for that. What would help here? A Tasking Manager instance with defined areas (say, 10km x 10km, or counties, or...)? Anything else? cheers Richard -- View this message in context: http://gis.19327.n5.nabble.com/Re-Dirt-Roads-formerly-Abandoned-railway-tp5815986p5816149.html Sent from the USA mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us