[Tagging] Proposed rewrite Of highway=track wiki page - Third Draft
Warin
61sundowner at gmail.com
Sat Apr 10 12:19:43 UTC 2021
On 8/4/21 4:57 pm, Peter Elderson wrote:
> Great job! Two remarks:
> 1.
> Recreation is mentioned twice: first in "outdoor recreation" (track
> recommended) and second in "recreation grounds" (use service instead).
> I'm not British enough to know if outdoor recreation is sufficiently
> different from recreation grounds. But hey, that probably goes for
> most of the world! In my mind, outdoor recreation often takes place on
> recreation grounds.
>
> 2.
> "Low importance roads" in the definition: that is, from a certain
> viewpoint. In other respects, a track can be very important, e.g. in
> terms of damages if it's blocked. Maybe just say minor roads, as you
> do a few times later on?
Low importance roads may become very important .. say in a flood, fire
or landslip.
Possibly 'normally low traffic' ? If 'important' then would it not have
an appropriate traffic level?
>
> Peter Elderson
>
>
> Op wo 7 apr. 2021 om 17:06 schreef Zeke Farwell <ezekielf at gmail.com
> <mailto:ezekielf at gmail.com>>:
>
> All good points raised. Let me just provide some context for why
> I chose certain phrases.
>
> In an earlier draft I used the phrase "minor land access roads".
> I received feedback that the word minor may not be clear enough
> when translated into other languages so I changed it to "low
> importance land access roads". "low usage" could also work but I
> think "minor" or "low importance" is preferable. It really is
> about the relative importance in the road network in the same way
> we decide if unclassified, tertiary, secondary, etc is
> appropriate. track is of lower importance to the network than
> these other classifications.
>
> Re: "regular road network". This is indeed vague, but it does
> seem to be a concept that many mappers have in their minds. I
> received feedback stating that track roads are something less than
> a regular road, not part of the public network, and various other
> statements to that effect. It sounds like in Germany there is
> even a legal distinction between "roads" (Straße) and "ways"
> (Wege). In other countries it seems to be more of a general idea
> separating "roads everyone uses" from "ways that aren't quite
> roads but some motor vehicles use". Perhaps there is a better way
> to phrase it, but I think this additional qualification beyond
> simply "land access roads" is useful. There are roads in remote
> areas of North America that could easily be considered "land
> access roads" because there is nothing but open land around them,
> but track is not the appropriate classification as they do serve
> as a connection between very distant towns.
>
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