[OSM-newbies] tertiary dirt roads?

[Kjeldgaard Morten]

On 14/11/2009, at 19.02, Charlotte Wolter wrote:

>         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?

Sounds perfectly reasonable. You may want to add a surface=* tag.

-- Morten