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<div>Thanks for working on that! It would be great to improve documentation here.<br></div><div>I though about working on it but was scared about making some mistakes<br></div><div>and misrepresenting things, so thanks for being brave enough to<br></div><div>propose something for discussion.<br></div><div><br></div><div>-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br></div><div><div><br></div><div>+1 to<br></div></div><div>"I'd suggest adding the purpose of each track to the description so they are not<br></div><div>based solely based on the physical characteristics" by Andres Harvey<br></div><div><br></div><div>For example <br></div><div><a href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/File:Compacted_forest_track_no1.jpg">https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/File:Compacted_forest_track_no1.jpg</a><br></div><div>can be main access road to village and therefore highway=unclassified<br></div><div><br></div><div>And also<br></div><div>"dirt track road through undeveloped land in Ghana" is not highway=track<br></div><div>if it main access road to a village<br></div><div><br></div><div>(see <a href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Highway_Tag_Africa">https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Highway_Tag_Africa</a><br></div><div>repeating general info using Africa-specific examples, AFAIK it is a <br></div><div>generally accepted advice)<br></div><div><br></div><div>----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br></div><div><br></div><div>"roads that primarily serve as access to the land itself in contrast to <br></div><div>roads that serve for people to access specific objects on the land or <br></div><div>to move between objects." by Christoph Hormann seems a very promising<br></div><div>definition, certainly preferable over one currently in draft.<br></div><div><br></div><div><div>I thought about something like<br></div><div>"road outside of regular road network, roads not leading<br></div><div>to cities, villages or other settlements, not leading to individual properties.<br></div><div><div><br></div></div><div>Typically used to access fields, forests, undeveloped land"<br></div><div><div>but it seems clearly inferior.<br></div><div><br></div></div></div><div>----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br></div><div><div><br></div><div>Taking "one lane" as fundamental part of definition is not a good idea.<br></div></div><div>It is fairly rare but there are two lane logging roads - how one would tag that?<br></div><div>And there is massive amount of one lane roads in agricultural or undeveloped areas<br></div><div>that are not highway=track but rather highway=unclassified or<br></div><div>highway=service service=driveway or<br></div><div>highway=residential (last one may be revealing my confusion<br></div><div>what "agricultural" means in English - is it including case where<br></div><div>there are houses every 300m with fields between them?)<br></div><div><br></div><div>-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br></div><div><div><br></div><div>"usually rural" - I am probably confused by lack of native English, but is it<br></div></div><div>including ways outside both cities and villages - for example deep within forest?<br></div><div><br></div><div>-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br></div><div><div><br></div><div>"Description: one-lane roads in agricultural or undeveloped areas." - again,<br></div></div><div>maybe it is probably caused by my English - it should be more clearly exclude <br></div><div>one-lane residential roads in villages - also ones in farming and poorly<br></div><div>developed areas.<br></div><div><br></div><div>Also, highway=track in some cases start in well developed areas.<br></div><div><a href="https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/227040700#map=17/50.05346/19.84046">https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/227040700#map=17/50.05346/19.84046</a><br></div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/227040700#map=17/50.05346/19.84046">https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/227040700#map=17/50.05346/19.84046</a><br></div><div>is so well developed area that I am considering whatever <br></div><div>highway=pedestrian would be a better tagging<br></div><div><br></div><div>-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br></div><div><div><div><br></div><div>I am not sure whether smoothness tag should be so strongly promoted.<br></div></div></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Mar 8, 2021, 04:32 by ezekielf@gmail.com:<br></div><blockquote class="tutanota_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid #93A3B8; padding-left: 10px; margin-left: 5px;"><div dir="ltr"><div>There have been a number of discussions on various channels recently
about the highway=track tag. I've taken some time to consolidate the
feedback from these discussions into a proposed rewrite of the
highway=track wiki page. I think it offers a clearer and more globally
applicable description of what we use this tag for. Let me know what you
think. <br></div><div><br></div><div>Current wiki page: <a target="_blank" href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:highway%3Dtrack" rel="noopener noreferrer">https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:highway%3Dtrack</a><br></div><div>Proposed rewrite: <a target="_blank" href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/User:Ezekielf/Tag:highway%3Dtrack" rel="noopener noreferrer">https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/User:Ezekielf/Tag:highway%3Dtrack</a><br></div><div><br></div><div>--<br></div><div>Zeke Farwell<br></div><div>Vermont, USA (where there are a lot of dirt roads and and two-track roads)<br></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div> </body>
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