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<p class="MsoNormal" dir="RTL"><span dir="LTR">I would like to handling tagging of a ways shared between tracks and intermittent waterways it is very common in Yemen and Middle East. There are not an official method to tagging this case</span></p>
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Bert -Araali- Van Opstal, and Florian Lohoff for providing very helpful feedback on the first few drafts of my proposed rewrite of the highway=track wiki page sent to this list last month. I've done my best to take all of your comments and concerns into account
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:left;direction:ltr;unicode-bidi:embed">I've settled on two key distinctions for highway=track that this draft is based on: track roads are 1. "low importance land access roads like farm or forest tracks" and 2. "not part
of the regular road network". I feel that this is very much in the same spirit as the current agriculture/forestry based definition while also expanding it to better match worldwide usage. These two distinctions intentionally leave room for interpretation.
How exactly we decide if a road is of "low importance" or part of the "regular road network" will vary from region to region. Similarly, a "land access road" is a somewhat vague term, but I feel it concisely captures the idea that track roads are for accessing
areas of open land, not permanent residences, settlements, facilities, etc.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:left;direction:ltr;unicode-bidi:embed">Here is the latest draft. Please let me know what you think.
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:left;direction:ltr;unicode-bidi:embed"><a href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/User:Ezekielf/Tag:highway%3Dtrack">https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/User:Ezekielf/Tag:highway%3Dtrack</a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:left;direction:ltr;unicode-bidi:embed">First draft for reference:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:left;direction:ltr;unicode-bidi:embed"><a href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/w/index.php?title=User:Ezekielf/Tag:highway%3Dtrack&oldid=2123291">https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/w/index.php?title=User:Ezekielf/Tag:highway%3Dtrack&oldid=2123291</a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:left;direction:ltr;unicode-bidi:embed">Last month's tagging list discussion for reference:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" dir="RTL"><a href="https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/tagging/2021-March/060353.html"><span dir="LTR">https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/tagging/2021-March/060353.html</span></a><span dir="LTR"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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