<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></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Jul 20, 2020 at 5:57 AM Mike Thompson <<a href="mailto:miketho16@gmail.com">miketho16@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sun, Jul 19, 2020 at 4:49 PM <<a href="mailto:tj-osmwiki@lowsnr.net" target="_blank">tj-osmwiki@lowsnr.net</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"> For<br>
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></blockquote><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 highway=track.<br></div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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The US Topo map gives forest road references so I add ref FS xxxx.<br></blockquote><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></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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TIGER seems to be at best very coarse, at worst fictional.<br></blockquote><div>+1 </div><div><br></div><div>Mike<br></div></div></div>
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