On 14/11/2009, at 19.02, Charlotte Wolter wrote: > I need guidance on tagging where dirt roads are major ways. > In western parts of the United States, especially the Southwest, a > dirt road may be a major link, reaching deep into a rural area. > These usually are very good dirt roads, wide and graded regularly. > Because of their good quality, they provide access for the average > passenger car, which often can travel these roads at a fairly high > rate of speed, say 35 or 45 miles an hour. > If these ways are tagged as "track," they are rendered on > the map as an ordinary brown line. At lower resolutions, the brown > line becomes rendered as a dashed brown line, and the character of > these roads is lost completely. They are mapped like any other dirt > track. > So I have been tagging them as tertiary roads and have added > "tracktype=grade1." Is this a problem? Is there an alternative?
Sounds perfectly reasonable. You may want to add a surface=* tag. -- Morten _______________________________________________ newbies mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/newbies
