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Thanks for diving in. If it's a very minor unimproved road and not
clearly service, I usually tag it track. I would suggest adding
some indication of road quality. If it's an improved gravel road,
I consider surface=gravel sufficient. If it's rougher than an
improved gravel road, surface=unpaved (in my area the surface is
usually a mix of dirt, rocks, gravel, so unpaved seems best), and
smoothness=very_bad (high clearance), or horrible (4wd)
[<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:smoothness">https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:smoothness</a>], or
4wd_only=yes . <br>
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The USFS motor vehicle use maps (MVUM) are very useful. <br>
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I think most of the road signs say FS, and most of the tags in my
area use FS, but the wiki
(<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/United_States_roads_tagging#National_Forest_Road_System">https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/United_States_roads_tagging#National_Forest_Road_System</a>)
says to use FR . I don't know the history, or if it really
matters. If someone is reading a map & it says FR or FS, they
probably won't even notice.<br>
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Keep this in mind when getting frustrated with the tiger data, I
think we would have next to nothing if it didn't get imported.<br>
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Brad<br>
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<div dir="ltr">Mike, welcome to the real world. Tiger street data
is better than nothing but not much. It's positionally
inaccurate and many roads are wrongly classified. a rough guide
at best. I do use the Tiger Roads 2019 overlay to add names to
streets and roads though. The names are reasonably accurate in
my experience.<br>
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roads that appear to be public access (e.g. to go to a
lake) but are<br>
obviously even more minor than tertiary roads I label
highway=unclassified.<br>
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<div>highway=unclassified are for roads that connect small
towns, or for "local traffic", while access to a lake
could be considered "local traffic", I would think it
would be better if these would be highway=service, or
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The US Topo map gives forest road references so I add
ref FS xxxx.<br>
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<div>That is what I have been doing as well. Some are
recommending that they be made into route relations,
which I am starting to do. <br>
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TIGER seems to be at best very coarse, at worst
fictional.<br>
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