[OSM-newbies] are roads driveable?

[David ``Smith'']

On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 11:54 PM, Aspen Swartz <aspendel at gmail.com> wrote:
> None of the categories are hard-and-fast, and especially since it's a
> user-generated map, your mileage on each road in your car may vary.
> Off the top of my head though, "footway", "path" and "pedestrian"
> probably won't take vehicles; "track" may only be suitable for 4-wheel
> drive vehicles; and in rural areas "driveway" and "residential" may
> not be free to access. "unclassified" may be tagged that way because
> the mapper didn't know the nature of the road.  All the other
> roadtypes look driveable to me.

I thought highway=track was meant for race tracks.  Running, horse
racing, auto racing, that sort of thing.  Isn't that what the wiki
says?  If you're talking about a track left by occasional passage of
animals or vehicles where there's no road, I think that's what
highway=path is for.

Unclassified is a very poorly-named tag, because in reality it is its
own distinct classification.  It's used on mostly rural roads that are
driveable enough, but don't go anywhere useful to through traffic and
are not residential in nature.  If the mapper doesn't know the nature
of the road, it should be tagged highway=road.

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David "Smith"
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