David ``Smith'' wrote: > On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 11:54 PM, Aspen Swartz <[email protected]> wrote: > >> None of the categories are hard-and-fast, and especially since it's a >> user-generated map, your mileage on each road in your car may vary. >> Off the top of my head though, "footway", "path" and "pedestrian" >> probably won't take vehicles; "track" may only be suitable for 4-wheel >> drive vehicles; and in rural areas "driveway" and "residential" may >> not be free to access. "unclassified" may be tagged that way because >> the mapper didn't know the nature of the road. All the other >> roadtypes look driveable to me. >> > > I thought highway=track was meant for race tracks. http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:highway%3Dtrack http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:tracktype
> Running, horse > racing, auto racing, that sort of thing. http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:leisure > Isn't that what the wiki > says? If you're talking about a track left by occasional passage of > animals or vehicles where there's no road, I think that's what > highway=path is for. > > Unclassified is a very poorly-named tag, because in reality it is its > own distinct classification. It's used on mostly rural roads that are > driveable enough, but don't go anywhere useful to through traffic and > are not residential in nature. If the mapper doesn't know the nature > of the road, it should be tagged highway=road. > > _______________________________________________ newbies mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/newbies
