>> On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 1:24 PM, Frank Sautter >> <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> >> wrote: >>> Richard Mann wrote: There are an awful lot of track/grade1 in >>> Germany, and I would like to know what the typical surface is >> here in germany we (mostly) we tag farmers or forestry roads >> ("Wirtschaftswege") that are not designed for very heavy vehicles >> and only few and slow traffic as highway=track. normally they are >> access restricted for this use. Richard Mann wrote: > If they have access restrictions, does that mean they are maintained > by the landowner, rather than the local government? no, the tracks are normally a parcel of land owned and maintained by the local commune (like all the residential roads). access restricted means that there are often signs like http://de.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Datei:Zeichen_260.svg or http://de.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Datei:Zeichen_250.svg with additional signs like http://de.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Datei:Zusatzzeichen_1024-17.svg and http://de.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Datei:Zusatzzeichen_1022-10.svg so no cars, motorbikes and lorries are allowed. they are just for farmers to access their fields and for bicyclists as a shortcut with almost no motor traffic or just for recreation walks.
take a look at my hometown with a lot of those "Wirtschafswege" http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=48.6298&lon=9.009&zoom=13 frank _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
