[OSM-newbies] tertiary dirt roads?

[Charlotte Wolter]

Everyone,

         I need guidance on tagging where dirt roads are major ways. 
In western parts of the United States, especially the Southwest, a 
dirt road may be a major link, reaching deep into a rural area. These 
usually are very good dirt roads, wide and graded regularly. Because 
of their good quality, they provide access for the average passenger 
car, which often can travel these roads at a fairly high rate of 
speed, say 35 or 45 miles an hour.
         If these ways are tagged as "track," they are rendered on 
the map as an ordinary brown line. At lower resolutions, the brown 
line becomes rendered as a dashed brown line, and the character of 
these roads is lost completely.  They are mapped like any other dirt track.
         So I have been tagging them as tertiary roads and have added 
"tracktype=grade1."  Is this a problem? Is there an alternative?

Charlotte Wolter


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