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

[Christoph Hormann]

On Thursday 25 February 2021, Bert -Araali- Van Opstal wrote:
> The standard highway tagging is mainly based on the physical
> appearance.  Not the functional or just partly the socio-economic
> importance.

The opposite is the case - standard highway tagging - with the exception 
of highway=motorway - is almost purely functional in OSM.  There are 
some exceptions from that in local practice (like distinction between 
highway=trunk and highway=primary in Germany for example).  But overall 
all of the main road classes are overwhelmingly used with a functional 
semantic delineation.  This is also something data users (both 
cartographic and routing) massively rely on.

-- 
Christoph Hormann
https://www.imagico.de/