Am Dienstag, 4. November 2008 schrieb Nic Roets: > Using the script below I found 219469 tracks of which 202630 did not have a > motorcar= tag. > > My reasoning behind gosmore was that tracks not suitable for vehicles > should be tagged as footway.
I think many tracks here could technically be used by motorcars, but motorcars are not allowed to use it (except for some special cases like if you own land which is accessible only using such a track or if you have special permission). A footway and a track (which is not allowed for cars) makes a huge difference for cyclists though. Therefore I would be hesitant to tag all tracks as footways (which would also be against common practice in osm). > It's flawed because we so many unsurfaced way > types. Perhaps we can adopt the following scheme ? > > highway=track defaults to motorcar=no > highway=unsurfaced defaults to motorcar=yes > highway=byway defaults to motorcar=yes Looking at http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Map_Features I did not find highway=unsurfaced How does it differ from the surface tag in Map_Features? surface paved /cobblestone /unpaved way Apply to all types of highways. If the tag is not present, it is assumed surface=paved, excepted for highway=footway. (sealed/unsealed outside UK). For byway I have no preference, I assume there should be very few in Germany. For track I am in favor of defaulting to motorcar=no, but let's wait what others think.... Thanks, Rainer > > bzcat germany.osm.bz2 | awk '/<way.*id.*timestamp.*>/ { print hway, motor; > hway=""; motor=""}; /<.*highway.*track.*>/ { hway="t" }; /<.*motorcar.*>/ > {motor=$0}' |grep '^t'|sort |less -S > > On Tue, Nov 4, 2008 at 10:04 PM, Rainer Dorsch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I am wondering, if there is a default for motorcar defined for > > highway=track > > if motorcar=yes/no is not specified explicitly. > > > > In Germany (Switzerland and Austria as well?) there are probably a very > > low fraction of tracks on which motorcars are allowed. > > > > This seems to be different in other countries, gosmore at least routes > > cars over tracks. I am wondering if the default can be per country....or > > how much > > work it is to give all tracks a motorcar tag. > > > > Can anybody find out easily how many tracks there are in Germany without > > an motorcar tag? > > > > Thanks, > > Rainer > > > > -- > > Rainer Dorsch > > Lärchenstr. 6 > > D-72135 Dettenhausen > > 07157-734133 > > email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > GPG Fingerprint: 5966 C54C 2B3C 42CC 1F4F 8F59 E3A8 C538 7519 141E > > Full GPG key: http://pgp.mit.edu/ > > > > _______________________________________________ > > talk mailing list > > talk@openstreetmap.org > > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk -- Rainer Dorsch Lärchenstr. 6 D-72135 Dettenhausen 07157-734133 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] GPG Fingerprint: 5966 C54C 2B3C 42CC 1F4F 8F59 E3A8 C538 7519 141E Full GPG key: http://pgp.mit.edu/ _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk