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<p>> Japan has local rules that _require_ a very rough mountain
path near me, impassable by any vehicle</p>
<p>In France we came recently to "départementales" ("roads" managed
by the Département (= Prefecture in Japan) mapped as track or even
path.</p>
<p>This was correct indeed: for historical or obscure reasons they
were probably roads, aren't any more and haven't been given to the
commune for local management.</p>
<p>So on the map you see the reference of the road (D *, not C *),
so the "status" but the description of the way is made according
to OSM standard.</p>
<p>The way to go for Japan? Thanks to the ref they will be able to
map the Japanese way and others will do it the usual way, having a
normal map.</p>
<p>So there is NO need for Japan to misuse highway tags, they can
map properly and have their funny/traditional maps based on OSM.<br>
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<p>Jean-Yvon</p>
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