On 08/24/2013 03:05 AM, Lester Caine wrote: > Martin Koppenhoefer wrote: >>> So I will not use highway=service for trackways around here that are >>> still used by school buses, refuse trucks and delivery lorries. >> >> what makes you believe it's a track and not an unpaved road if even >> the school bus takes that road? > > No footpaths, lights, tarmac or road markings but freely available to > drive along. > It's a track ... but the current definition prevents it's use. Adding > other tags to 'service' is wrong as well as its servicing anywhere, > and unclassified has a similar incongruity. Many of them have been at > least hardcored, but even then 'road' just seems too grand a title for > a track.
Looks like you need to make peace with the dissonnance produced by the difference between OSM's narrow definition of the word 'track' and how it is loosely thrown around in other contexts to designate an unpaved way. Rigid technical acceptions and popular usage can coexist ! _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
