[Imports] WRI Congo Basin forestry tracks import

[Thomas Maschler]

Christoph,

I added a link to the wiki for a technical documentation of origin, production process and accuracy assessment.
Find the link also below, for your convenience.
https://wri-forest-atlas.s3.amazonaws.com/Team/Projects/OSM/cmr_roads_technical_report.pdf

Logging roads are inside logging concessions or logging titles and access is granted to logging companies only. Often, roads are blocked once abandoned. However, law is not always enforced and even if blocked, roads are still used by motorbikes and pedestrians to access the area.

Plantation roads inside plantations are private as well.

All logging road are unpaved. We didn't include this attribute in most of the layers, because it was a given. Material depends on the local situation. Mostly it is laterite, but it could also be rocks, sand etc. Unpaved would be the most appropriate tag. However, if you say, track tag already assumes, that the road is unpaved, we can discard the surface tag.

Best,

Thomas

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Thomas Maschler
GIS & Remote Sensing Associate
Food, Forests & Water Program
World Resources Institute
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