So far, the only road that I have tagged as a track was a one-lane, unnamed, and poorly-maintained gravel road laid out in an otherwise-overgrown field, and intended for use by trucks maintaining a series of billboards along an Interstate Highway (a motorway, to use the British term).
-------Original Email------- Subject :Re: [OSM-newbies] The classic U.S. gravel road >From :mailto:[email protected] Date :Thu Jan 06 13:37:24 America/Chicago 2011 On 1/6/11 2:23 PM, Charlotte Wolter wrote: Hello everyone, In the U.S. most rural and some suburban areas have mostly two-lane gravel roads. These are not tracks. They are regularly maintained, usually by the county. They often follow the one-mile grid lines common in the United States. However, I haven't been able to find an equivalent in OSM tagging. They are not tracks, which implies something opportunistic and not maintained by government. The photo accompanying "unclassified" shows a narrow paved road like many rural roads I have seen in the U.K. But, these are not narrow--they usually are at least two lanes wide--and they are not paved. So, how should I tag them, or do we need something new for the United States? i generally use unclassified (or sometimes residential if there is a lot of housing) with surface=gravel. set maxspeed as appropriate. i would only use track for an unnamed road, most of the gravel roads have names or street numbers in the US. take a look at the road grid in rural Iowa sometime. almost all gravel, heavily used and maintained, all numbered/named. richard _______________________________________________ newbies mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/newbies -- John F. Eldredge -- [email protected] "Reserve your right to think, for even to think wrongly is better than not to think at all." -- Hypatia of Alexandria _______________________________________________ newbies mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/newbies
