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

[Kevin Kenny]

On Fri, May 22, 2020 at 4:31 AM Mateusz Konieczny via Tagging
<tagging at openstreetmap.org> wrote:
> It is extremely rare - if there is single access road to a private residence
> then it is a driveway no matter whatever it is paved asphalt road or
> something that requires tractor to pass.
>
> Maybe it would matter in case where there is one road used as driveway and
> second road that may be used to access property but is unused, possibly due to
> poor state.
>
> But that would because one functions as driveway and one not.
> In case of people using worse-quality road as a driveway
> and not using better quality road as a driveway
> the tagging also should follow function and road used as driveway
> should be tagged as driveway.

The case that I scratch my head over is a road whose primary purpose
is farming or forestry, but that is also the path of access to
someone's cabin. You seem to be saying that the presence of a dwelling
trumps all other uses, but that doesn't make sense to me.  Some of the
cabins on inholdings in the forests around here are accessed by ATV or
snowmobile, depending on the season, because the road has deteriorated
beyond what a typical SUV can handle. (No, they don't get Amazon
deliveries.) I also don't want to say that a logging track is a
residential driveway just because there's one guy with a parcel
somewhere fifteen miles off the highway, when the only other traffic
on the track is International Paper's trucks.

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73 de ke9tv/2, Kevin