[Tagging] Use of highway=track vs highway=service cemeteries, parks, allotment gardens, golf courses, and recreation areas

[Florian Lohoff]

On Thu, Feb 25, 2021 at 09:52:58PM -0800, stevea wrote:
> Yes, this works for me (and I believe many others), and is the "newer
> tagging style" I alluded to that I now do and have done for years.
> Contrast that with the older style that is more strictly
> "highway=service MEANS paved" and "highway=track MEANS unpaved."
> That's old-school now that we have surface=* tags — though a fair bit
> of this style exists in the map.

I dont think this ever has been like that and i am with OSM for like 14
years. The visual appearance of a road was never the key figure to
determine which road class it is. That was a shortcut mappers always
took and take when talking about tracks.

If we would do so there were a lot of African countries where the whole of
national road network would be tracks which is BS of course.

I keep on fighting against usage of tracks for all sorts of usecases.

A track had been defined as beeing most or exclusively used for
agricultural (and the like) purposes. So a driveway of a farm is NOT a
track. Its there because people live on that farm. And there will be more
parcel deliveries on that road than there are tractors.

My rule of thumb in Germany is:

"If there is a postal service, parcel delivery, school bus, garbage
truck or its the road which makes residential living accessible its NOT
a track"

Flo
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Florian Lohoff                                                     f at zz.de
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