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<pre>I am in 2 minds about this ... these roads exist so they can be seen.
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<pre>They might be usefull navigational features;</pre>
<pre>firstly to plot progress along a public road - you have just past this private road so you must he here on the map.</pre>
<pre>secondly for any emergency services - mainly thinking of fire, particularly of non local fireies.
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<pre>Some object as mapping them may encourage inappropriate use.. "its on my map, so I can use it" is one of the responses. Sigh.
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<pre>Adding access=private works for some renders and not others.
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<pre>I do like to see the map with all these tracks, even private ones.
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<pre>On the other hand I don't want people seeing a line on the map and thinking they can use it...
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<pre>A middle ground? Show the start of the track and no more???
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<pre><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Australian_Tagging_Guidelines#Road_Tagging">https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Australian_Tagging_Guidelines#Road_Tagging</a>
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How I would tag farm tracks..
<span class="western">"highway=track Gravel fire trails, forest drives, 4WD trails and similar roads. "</span></pre>
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<pre><span class="western">Then goes on to </span>
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<pre><span class="western">"highway=service</span> Unnamed access roads. e.g.
Entrance ways and roads in parks, government properties, beach access
etc. Use a short service road where you may want to mark the entrance
to a private/government area, but not map the interior private roads
in detail."</pre>
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<pre>The problem here is that some raise the "not map the interior
private roads in detail" as not mapping them at all.
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