I should have mentioned highway=path as an acceptable alternative. What I do see when validating though is a large number of highways connecting settlements that are labeled tracks many of which look wide enough for a 4 by 4 and these I feel should be labelled something else.
Cheerio John On 21 December 2017 at 21:25, Philippe Verdy <[email protected]> wrote: > There may be exceptions if the tracks are not praticable at all by > vehicles (including motorbikes). They should however not even be tracks but > just paths if they are just usable by horses or usable sportively by > mountainbikes. > Not all houses or even villages are linked by unpaved tracks=minor roads. > This happens in Africa as well as Asia, but there are also some examples in > Europe in mountains for some old villages that are nearly deserted, with > just some agricultral buildings (mostly used as shelters for animals, but > sometimes occupied to receive walking tourists in summer). > > If the houses in Africa are non-permanently inhabited and are just > seasonal shelters, the tracks connecting them may be in fact just paths, > used sometimes by roaming animal breeders or workers in forests: the > equipement is very minimalist (including for sanitisation or drinkable > water, just collected in nearby rivers) and the rest of the time the tracks > will not be maintained or could be vegetated. They will become visible > again during short periods of activity. > > > > 2017-12-21 16:41 GMT+01:00 john whelan <[email protected]>: > >> It's come up in the OSMand mailing list that these aren't shown at higher >> zoom levels. Whilst mapping specifically just for the rendering system is >> frowned on in this case it is supported by the wiki. >> >> If it connects settlements then according to >> >> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Highway_Tag_Africa >> >> it is not a track. >> >> unclassified or minor road surface unpaved is a reasonable default. >> >> Cheerio John >> >> _______________________________________________ >> HOT mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot >> >> >
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