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<p><font face="Verdana">The standard highway tagging is mainly based
on the physical appearance. Not the functional or just partly
the socio-economic importance. In Africa the majority of our
roads are unpaved. That's why we created our own classification
based on mostly socio-economic importance. When we can't assign
a specific service tag to a highway, we use track.<br>
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The USA specific section should be added on a separate USA
country convention page, just like others countries do. It
makes the wiki unusable if we are going to do this for every
country. Just make a link.<br>
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So for us it's very simple, if you have an unpaved way but you
can assign a specific function to it you are fine to use
highway= service and service=* with surface=unpaved.</font></p>
<p><font face="Verdana">Greetings,</font></p>
<p><font face="Verdana">Bert Araali<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 25/02/2021 20:48, Joseph Eisenberg
wrote:<br>
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<div dir="ltr">Is it appropriate to use highway=track for minor
access ways in parks, allotments, recreation grounds,
cemeteries, and golf courses?<br>
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I've just updated the highway=track page after there was a long
discussion by US based mappers and addition of a USA-specific
section. <br>
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It appears that the debatable uses of highway=track in the USA
are the same issues that I've seen in Europe and Indonesia, so
I've re-written a couple sections of the page to mention that
the tag can be used for roads to access areas for firefighting,
hunting, fishing, birdwatching, gathering mushrooms, and so on,
in addition to logging and agriculture, and that they can be
used for purely recreational purposes. There is now also a
section about debatable usage (e.g. for any unpaved road, or for
any rough/slippery road, things which can be specified with
surface=, tracktype= and smoothness= however).<br>
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One question that is not clear globally is if use of
highway=track for minor access ways in parks, allotments,
recreation grounds, cemeteries, and golf courses is correct as
similar to agricultural, forestry and recreational use, or if it
is more appropriate to use highway=service.<br>
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It seems this is done commonly in parts of the USA and I've seen
it in Poland and some places in Germany too, but there also seem
to be mappers who consider it incorrect tagging.<br>
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-- Joseph Eisenberg<br>
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