If you are using JOSM there is a USFS road layer. The color of the way indicates surface and highway classification if I remember correctly. I posted the legend on Slack a couple of years ago.
The TIGER import data quality varied from region to region. Even today in Washington State it's bad, so bad that I don't recommend using it. My guess is that it's low priority for counties to update Feds, especially when their budgets are already tight. There is even one county in Washington State that they don't even have a current road layer. Best, Clifford On Sun, Jul 19, 2020 at 3:48 PM <tj-osmw...@lowsnr.net> wrote: > Hi folks, > > Editing in Boundary County, Idaho in the Panhandle, I've been extending > the forest landuse area around Bonners Ferry and have come across a > difficulty in classifying forest roads. > > It seems that many have been automatically imported and have > highway=residential, which is just plain wrong. > > For roads that appear metalled (paved) and/or access mines, quarries, > communication towers etc. I label highway=service, for roads that are > unpaved or sometimes seem to almost fade out I label highway=track. For > roads that appear to be public access (e.g. to go to a lake) but are > obviously even more minor than tertiary roads I label highway=unclassified. > > Is there a more consistent recommended method? > > The US Topo map gives forest road references so I add ref FS xxxx. > > TIGER seems to be at best very coarse, at worst fictional. > > Thanks. > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-us mailing list > Talk-us@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us > -- @osm_washington www.snowandsnow.us OpenStreetMap: Maps with a human touch
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