On Mon, 27 Jul 2020 07:36:00 -0600 Rob Savoye <[email protected]> wrote:
> My entire county is contained within a national forest, and most of > the roads through residential areas are a single lane dirt road > maintained (sort-of) by the homeowners themselves. Often at the last > house the road becomes an unmaintained jeep trail, usually gated, and > goes a really long way into the forest. We use these for wildland > fires and rescues frequently. > > The question is how to tag the change in the road. Usually it > becomes "smoothness=very_bad", etc... The question is since it's now > more of a track used by jeeps, should it be narrow=yes, still > lanes=1, or should I use width=2m ? To me, lanes= seems to apply more > to non 4wd_only tracks. They're also usually narrower than the single > lane highway too. The width of the "highway" is important if you're > trying to figure out what size fire truck to bring to the wildland > fire... For unpaved roads with well-established ruts, I count the number of ruts and divide by 2 to get the lane count. This is useful to figure out things like how difficulty it would be to pass oncoming traffic. Tagging the width is useful in a different way: ruts two meters apart that pass between a pair of boulders also two meters apart are far more restrictive of who can drive there than ruts two meters apart on a way that's been cleared an additional meter on either side. -- Mark _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
