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

[brad]

"That is why in Africa we consider access keys only to be used for legal 
access restrictions"    That's the way most of us do it also, and that's 
the way the wiki is written.
I'm not clear on what you do differently in Africa,  Is there a document 
which describes the methodology?   If not, perhaps a quick informal 
summary of the differences here would be helpful.

On 2/28/21 6:03 AM, Bert -Araali- Van Opstal wrote:
>
> And even adding on that, what about a non-paved road with so many 
> potholes or turning into a mudpool during the rainy season that it 
> can't be travelled anymore by any vehicle.  Should I put 
> motor-vehicle=no ?
> Even the bollards here get driven over, a bollard made of just a 
> wooden stem won't stop a truck driver from running over it, if their 
> is no signage. Again local culture, local perception.
> If there are trees growing next to a road, most of the drivers go 
> there with a chainsaw, we cut it.  Should I use an access key to 
> indicate that the road might be to narrow for a truck ?
>
> That is why in Africa we consider access keys only to be used for 
> legal access restrictions, not physical. For that we use other keys 
> like smoothness, intermittent, seasonal etc.... .  That is why we have 
> in the largest part of the world a completely different approach of 
> highway tagging and that is why I would prefer to see it changed or at 
> least forked (not just a "buried" continental variant), because what 
> we have now as the global OSM standard is not usable, is not 
> applicable in the rest, which is "the most" part of the world.
>
> On 28/02/2021 13:50, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote:
>> sent from a phone
>>
>>> On 28 Feb 2021, at 09:53, Minh Nguyen<minh at nguyen.cincinnati.oh.us>  wrote:
>>>
>>> * A particular barrier=bollard could be motorcar=no regardless of signage or legal prohibitions, just based on the width on either side of the bollard.
>> this is easy, but what about motorcycle=no? Could depend on the jurisdiction/situation
>>
>>
>> Cheers Martin
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