[Tagging] track vs footway, cycleway, bridleway or path

[Warin]

On 21/5/20 4:28 am, Mike Thompson wrote:
> On Wed, May 20, 2020 at 12:09 PM Mike Thompson <miketho16 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Wed, May 20, 2020 at 11:57 AM Joseph Eisenberg
>> <joseph.eisenberg at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> However, if you are talking about a paved multi-use path, bicycle path or footway which happens to be 3 or 4 meters wide and therefore a police car or emergency vehicle can fit, generally these are still mapped as highway=cycleway or =footway or =path if they are designed and designated for pedestrians or bicycles.
>> It is gravel.  Rough width is 2.5 meters (I tagged it as such).
>>
>>> Do you have an example of a particular path or road which is debatable?
>> https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/798886886#map=16/40.4656/-105.1320
>> I mapped this originally as highway=path, it was changed by another
>> user to highway=track.  I just changed it back this morning.
> Note that this is a brand new  trail that just opened to the public
> within the last few weeks.  Imagery currently available in OSM editing
> software will not show the trail as it now exists. There was a track
> there previously, and the new trail overlaid parts of it, those that
> it didn't overlay are still mapped as "track."


There are no tags on the way to suggest it is not a 'track'.

Motor vehicles are not excluded in anyway, for example 'motor_vehicle=private, comment=Recreational use, motor vehicles for maintenance only'

   

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