Janko Mihelić <jan...@gmail.com> writes: > Track is used more and more for unpaved roads. Mapnik and other renderers > are probably a big reason, because they don't render > Surface<http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Surface>and > Smoothness <http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:smoothness> tags. I > really don't know of any renderers that show these tags. I hope the new > openstreetmap-carto stylesheet will speed up fixing this problem.
This is a good argument for enhancing the rendering to show roads that are other than paved somehow. A track is totally different from an unpaved road. In particular, a 'highway=unclassified surface=dirt' is (around my area) legally a road, no different than if it were paved, and almost always is a separate parcel in the sense of land ownership. A track is almost never legally a road, rarely has a public right of access, but just a place you could physically drive, and is very rarely a separate parcel. The track/unpaved confusion is also present in at least some mkgmap style sheets. I agree that it's very important for many map users to know about paved vs not-paved, at least in places where there are both kinds.
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