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<body> <span style="font-family:sans-serif">Well, I doubt this is a good usage of highway=track. If it's paved but it's width is less than a normal road (in europe it's 6 meters so 2x3 meters), and doesn't have any markings, it is marked as a service road, but not a track.</span>
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<p>Feb 25, 2021 23:36:17 Buster Christenson <busterama@gmail.com>:</p>
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I use track for any highway that is less than two vehicle widths across in a non-urban setting.
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It could be paved, graded or just barely scratched into the surface of the desert by a set of two wheel tracks spaced one automobile width apart.
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Everything else about whether a highway is 4x4, offroad, surface type or smoothness, grade, operator, etc... I leave to the additional attributes I can use to describe the track or other highway.
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On Fri, Feb 19, 2021 at 4:59 PM Brian M. Sperlongano <<a href="mailto:zelonewolf@gmail.com" style="">zelonewolf@gmail.com</a>> wrote:
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The usage of the tag highway=track is controversial. Through
<br style=""> discussion with both US-based and foreign mappers, it is apparent that
<br style=""> this tag is used differently in the US than it is in the rest of the
<br style=""> world. Further, the usage in the US appears to be different from how
<br style=""> it is documented on the OSM wiki[1].
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<br style=""> The wiki description is "roads for mostly agricultural use, forest tracks etc."
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<br style=""> In the US, the 2007 TIGER import assigned highway=track to CFCC code
<br style=""> A51, which is described as "Vehicular trail, road passable only by 4WD
<br style=""> vehicle, unseparated".
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<br style=""> In a recent Slack discussion[2], mappers shared their perspective on
<br style=""> how they use highway=track:
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<br style=""> "I always use track for public, unmaintained highways and usually use
<br style=""> track for discontinued roads. My thought is that if it used to be a
<br style=""> road, and snowmobiles and ATVs can still use it, then track works
<br style=""> (with access=permissive if applicable)" -aweech, New Hampshire
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<br style=""> "I use highway=path for trails that were formerly cut as forestry
<br style=""> tracks (wide between trees), but are now only beaten in a single-track
<br style=""> due to exclusively non-motorized usage." -adamfranco, Vermont
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<br style=""> "I use it for any rough, unmaintained looking track" -Zeke Farwell, Vermont
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<br style=""> "I use track for any road that would be irresponsible to route over
<br style=""> because it might wreck a car, or isn’t cleared of snow, tree, or flood
<br style=""> debris, or only used during some seasons.. the “purpose” of the road
<br style=""> doesn’t matter to me." -bhousel, New Jersey
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<br style=""> "I don't think forestry and agriculture are bad reasons for a road to
<br style=""> be a track, and that does indeed match the definition of a lot of
<br style=""> tracks in Colorado. If it were expanded to include the fact that this
<br style=""> use might be historical, and then add mining and other natural
<br style=""> resource management, and unmanaged recreation, then you'd cover almost
<br style=""> all of what we call tracks in the US" -phidauex, Colorado
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<br style=""> It appears that the US usage of highway=track follows more closely to
<br style=""> the definition from the TIGER import, which is based on physical
<br style=""> characteristics, rather than the wiki definition, which is based on
<br style=""> usage.
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<br style=""> US mappers: how do you apply highway=track in the US?
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<br style=""> [1] <a href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:highway=track" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank" style="">https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:highway=track</a>
<br style=""> [2] <a href="https://osmus.slack.com/archives/C2VJAJCS0/p1613754200382000" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank" style="">https://osmus.slack.com/archives/C2VJAJCS0/p1613754200382000</a>
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Thank You,
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<br style=""> Buster
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