Javbw
> On Jan 8, 2016, at 8:43 AM, Dave Swarthout <daveswarth...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> hat is used for agricultural or other purposes
Question on that:
https://goo.gl/maps/Nvbmz1Z4bJp
We have a lot of public roads in Japan that, on import, were set to
"unclassified". In rural areas - many are wrong.
But as the roads are not residential, and not practical for through traffic,
calling them a unclassified similarly seems wrong. They are public roads, and
decently maintained, but very very narrow, and spiderweb between the more major
residential and unclassified roads. I have tagged many of them as
highway=service - as they are a rural equivalent to alleys (service=alley) - as
they have major width limitations, parallel larger roads, and are covered with
driveways (to greenhouses, etc) track intersections - they just happen to be
agricultural tracks and tractor ramps, but are very similar to alleys leading
to driveways and garages.
Eventually the fields are sold, houses built, road widened and the road turns
into residential - and the agricultural tracks disappear under houses. A new
residential street is born.
I tag it this way because calling it a track or residential is misleading in my
situation - one that doesn't exist whatsoever in California - so I am wondering
if this situation (unbelievably spiderwebbed *rural* public roads where one is
the "through" road and the other grid out, and then further grid out into
farming tracks) is seemingly uncommon in other places.
I have never seen a place with so many public, passable, routable roads in a
rural area ever. It is like a city grid without the buildings.
Having them render as residential or tracks is very misleading - same as
rendering 2.5m public alley ways in Tokyo as "tracks".
Being able to see the difference between the "easy road" the "rural alley" road
and the "farming track" is paramount. There are tons of tracks along the river
and up into logging cuts, I'm not talking about those - and I don't want these
confused with them either.
Google and Apple both have the issue, and I get routed down a road where it is
easy to drive - but only 20km/h. Next to it is the road I should be on. This is
because this distinction is not in their data - just "unclassified" and "2.5m
width". It isn't residential nor track. The duckiness of the road is lost.
I would almost suggest service=rural or minor_rural to document this.
Opinions?
Javbw
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