The combination of tracktype, surface and smoothness could fit the bill. However smoothness values are ill-defined and would need more objective classification, but they also refer to things like high-clearance vehicles
see: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:smoothness On 8 July 2014 21:14, Marc Gemis <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello Jesse, > > welcome to this list. This is indeed the right list to post this type of > questions. > > However, this question has popped up every few months the past year and so > far so consensus has been reached. You can always search the tagging > archive and you'll find threads such as > https://www.mail-archive.com/tagging%40openstreetmap.org/msg15943.html > (this is not the first one in the thread though) > > regards > > m > > > On Tue, Jul 8, 2014 at 9:00 PM, Jesse Crawford <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> Apologies if this is the wrong list, I'm new to the community. >> >> On the wiki talk page for tracktype [1] there is some discussion from >> Australians of this property not properly reflecting road usability. Here >> in desert New Mexico I am working on significantly improving mapping of >> tracks, and I have the same problem. Many tracks here are apparently Grade >> 1 or 2 as they are made up of well-compacted gravel and exposed bedrock. >> However, due to grade or unevenness they are often unsuitable (and unsafe) >> for 2WD or low-clearance vehicles. These paths are often quite dangerous to >> be stuck on, miles away from the nearest person and beyond phone reception. >> >> It seems that there are properties to express information like evenness, >> but they are not taken into account by the standard renderer while the >> Grade is. Are there any plans to redefine Grade or create a new property >> for use by renderers that directly expresses the usability of a road? >> >> My suggestion would be adding a property (perhaps "suitability") with >> values of "2wd" and "4wd," which matches the semantics used by e.g. Forest >> Service maps which often show 4WD-only tracks with a different line. >> >> As a second but similar question, off-highway vehicles are a popular >> pasttime here and there are many tracks intended for ATVs or dirtbikes, not >> wide enough for SUVs. Is there a best practice for tagging these types of >> paths? >> >> Thanks! >> >> [1] https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:tracktype >> >> Jesse B. Crawford >> Student, Information Technology >> New Mexico Inst. of Mining & Tech >> >> [email protected] | [email protected] >> http://cs.nmt.edu/~jcrawford | http://jbcrawford.us >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Tagging mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > Tagging mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging > >
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