I would make it unclassified - more generally, in this kind of case I would put the old route at some lower highway level than the new route, exact value depending on the situation (both the relative quality of the roads and the presence or absence of destinations for which the old road would actually be the best choice.
Andre Engels On Mon, Sep 18, 2017 at 1:10 AM, Dave Swarthout <daveswarth...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > I came across an interesting routing problem the other day. A section of the > Richardson Highway in Alaska was relocated in 2015 by the Alaska DOT in > anticipation of erosion or flooding by the nearby Delta River. However, the > old highway is still present, is still paved, and is shorter than the new > highway that replaced it. OSM mapper Will Lenz classified the old highway as > a track to "persuade" his GPS's routing algorithm into using the new > section. See the following changeset and the conversation I had with Will > here: http://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/47049836. > > Clearly, the old highway is not a track using the Wiki's definition. I might > be tempted to tag it as highway=unclassified, or perhaps service, but none > of these solutions is ideal. Will's idea works but is not, strictly > speaking, proper. > > How then should one tag such a way? > > AlaskaDave > > -- > Dave Swarthout > Homer, Alaska > Chiang Mai, Thailand > Travel Blog at http://dswarthout.blogspot.com > > _______________________________________________ > Tagging mailing list > Tagging@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging > -- André Engels, andreeng...@gmail.com _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
