Clifford, Could you repost the legend? It's hard/impossible to make out the surface reliably from aerial photos.
On 2020/07/20 14:18, Clifford Snow wrote: > 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 > <mailto: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 <mailto:Talk-us@openstreetmap.org> > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us > > > > -- > @osm_washington > www.snowandsnow.us <https://www.snowandsnow.us> > OpenStreetMap: Maps with a human touch > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-us mailing list > Talk-us@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us > -- Mark Brown 8-3-17-803 Shimorenjaku, Mitaka, Tokyo 181-0013 Tel/fax: 0422 42 3151 Mobile: 090 8774 7483 (Japan) +44 843 849 0359 (UK, VoIP) _______________________________________________ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us
