[OSM-newbies] what's a track?

[David ``Smith'']

On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 9:39 AM, Aspen Swartz <aspendel at gmail.com> wrote:
> No, I don't think there's a special tag for racing surfaces.

Actually there is, but it's not highway=track.

> From the wiki:
>
> Tag:highway=track
> Roads for agricultural use, gravel roads in the forest etc.; usually
> unpaved/unsealed but may occasionally apply to paved tracks as well.

Take a closer look at
<http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:highway>.  You're right about
highway=track, but there's also highway=raceway, which says "A course
or track for racing".  That particular value doesn't have its own
page, but it's there on the page for the highway key.  When I was
reading that wiki page recently, I must have seen that entry and
mistook it for the entry for track.

I suppose I have several map features to correct now.

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