On Mon, 2014-05-19 at 19:05 +0100, Richard Fairhurst wrote: > I'm interested to know what level of access people believe this implies > in their home countries.
I Australia, 'track' generally means a road that is badly maintained or not maintained at all. Almost certainly unsealed. Some short and some quite long. Some of the longer ones are important connecting or tourist roads. Generally, Australian roads in OSM are (legally) public access. However, lots of tracks while legal are very difficult to drive due to the conditions. I have in the past campaigned to have rendering reflect that difficulty based on the tracktype tag but not sufficient interest. We'll just have to wait for the coroners report... David > > Here in the UK, for example, highway=track is often used for private > farm tracks, so you can't safely route over it unless access tags have > been added. But evidently that's not always the case elsewhere. > > http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/OSM_tags_for_routing/Access-Restrictions > has suggestions for a few countries, but is missing some pretty major > ones, such as the US and the Netherlands. > > cheers > Richard > > > _______________________________________________ > Tagging mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
