On Sat, Nov 14, 2009 at 1:02 PM, Charlotte Wolter <[email protected]> wrote: > Everyone, > > 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?
I think that you'll add a lot of value if you add surface=dirt or surface=gravel where those are true. They are observable and verifiable and less subject to interpretation based on varying experience. http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:surface _______________________________________________ newbies mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/newbies
