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

[Mateusz Konieczny]

May 22, 2020, 03:09 by miketho16 at gmail.com:

> On Thu, May 21, 2020 at 4:52 PM Martin Koppenhoefer <> dieterdreist at gmail.com> > wrote:
>
> > If the driveway is too rough, it maybe isn’t a driveway any more, it will depend on the other driveways in the area what is acceptable as a driveway, and when you would consider it track, that’s why there isn’t a clear limit on a global level.
> This seems to contradict what > Mateusz  said. "> Way used solely to access a private residence is always highway=service, service=driveway no matter
> whatever it is short, long, paved, unpaved, lit, unlit, ugly or 22 lanes wide."
>
> So you are saying that the highway=* tag depends not just on its function, not just on its physical condition, but also on its physical condition relative to the other ways in the vicinity?!   
>
It is probably the same case again.

1) there are two roads that can be used as access road
2) one is high quality, one is terrible
3) therefore better one is solely used as driveway, while terrible is used solely
    to access field/forest along it
4) one used as driveway is tagged as driveway, one used as field/forest access
    is tagged as highway=track

In this case physical characteristics impacted functional charateristics
what changed highway classification.

But highway=* should consider solely character.

Some interpret this as "all unpaved is highway=track". This is wrong.

Similarly reasoning going like

1) in my country roads forming national road grid (highway=trunk) are
    all dual carriageway
2) therefore all trunks must be paved dual carriageway

is similarly broken.

functional and physical and administrative classification often match
and it is tempting to pretend that there is an exact match.

But sooner or later you run into weird cases like road ranked high
in official classification but of low quality.

Poland has for example case of road that used to lead to a bridge 
(destroyed in WW II, not rebuild).

It is still officially highly ranked, but as it leads solely to riverside fields it is
highway=track. It does not matter at all that it is "droga krajowa"
or "droga wojewódzka".

Extremely high-quality logging rod through forest is still highway=track.

Extremely low quality driveway is still highway=service + service=driveway
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