On Sat, 30 May 2020 at 18:23, Florian Lohoff <f...@zz.de> wrote: > > On Fri, May 29, 2020 at 04:10:42PM -0600, Mike Thompson wrote: > > I know we just had a similar discussion, but I am discovering more and > more > > cases where mappers have changed every dirt road they can find to > > "highway=track". For example, it looks like all of the dirt roads in the > > I am fighting for this now 10+ years and its a hard fight. I live in the > countryside and regularly people show up, retagging everything to track. > Most of the times its people living far away in pretty urban areas. > > The open issues for rendering surface and/or smoothness on OSM-carto have stalled, but it might help fight this. It is often used as a proxy for "four wheel drive preferred". I am guilty of this myself in tagging semi-abandoned construction.
> I found the description of what a track is good. All osm wiki articles > for highways classes miss the point "When does this _not_ apply". > > For tracks i have simple criteria when it cant be a track: > > - residential buildings (or used for reaching them) > - (school) buses > - garbage collection trucks > - postal services > > If anything is seen on that road it cant be a track. A track is defined > as a road for exclusive or mostly agricultural usage. So as soon as > there is a single residential building the amount of traffic for that > building outweights the amount of agricultural traffic by orders. > > So a farms driveway is also not a track. > > Those last three seem a good inclusion in the rather wordy highway=track versus other classes of highway=* <https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:highway%3Dtrack#highway.3Dtrack_versus_other_classes_of_highway.3D.2A> section on the wiki. Your blunter title might help too. Most tracktype=grade1 are probably highly suspicious.
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