On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 2:07 PM, Frank Sautter <[email protected]>wrote:
> 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.svgand > 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 > English highway law generally starts from a position where there are no access restrictions for highways that are the responsibility of local government. So if there are no access restrictions, it would generally be a local-govt road and tagged as unclassified. If it's a local-govt way with access restrictions, the nearest thing we tend to have is highway=cycleway, with some additional access for farm traffic etc not generally seen as worth mentioning (you assume it exists by default if required). We'd only tend to use highway=track for non-residential privately-owned vehicular ways. Most fields can be accessed from a local-govt open-access road, so we don't have all that many tracks. Richard
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