I have frequently a tagging dilemma. See this example: Coburn Rd on this location: http://osm.org/go/z...@yoeg-- (N of US 2). It was tagged as residential, but I've been there two days ago and it's a decent "compacted gravel" road, almost 2-car wide primarily for agricultural use, although it does connect farms, and probably can be even be used as through-road (to get from one highway to another). Category residential seemed to me to be primarily for urban setting. So, the best I thought for this one would be "track". But this is rendered almost like a path (the dashed line). What are your thoughts?
As John said, consider highway=unclassified. If it's a 'real road', it shouldn't be track. The fact that people *use* it for agricultural access doesn't make it a track. If it's both a legal right of way (public way, or "private way") * reasonably passable by normal passenger cars then it's residential or unclassified, especially if it is reasonable to use it to get from here to there as a connecting road. track is more towards "you better have 4WD" and "you ought to have a reason to be using this" although these aren't hard rules. * meaning: does the government consider this a road, or a place you can drive "off road". The presence of any of speed limit signs, maintenance by county highway dept, government snow plowing would mean the government thinks it is a road.
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