[talk-au] 4wd only road

[Matt White]

I've been using 4wd_only (and occasionally 4WD_only ) for a while for 
tracks that really require a high clearance vehicle, or that are marked 
as 4wd-Only. Haven't marked heaps of them though...

I had a wiki tag proposal running for a bit for such a tag, but it was 
around the time of the surface=*/smoothness=* debacle, and it got lost 
in the furore.

http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/4WD_Only

Smoothness was an attempt to sort out the variable types of road surface 
(unpaved is really just a generic tag - Rainbow beach is technically 
"unpaved", ditto for Fraser Island, but in those cases, a 4WD only 
marker would be valid (yes, I've seen Holden Commodores on rainbow, but 
that didn't end so well)

I personally feel that it is a required tag, and it seems that there is 
definite relevance to AU conditions. I did nothing with renders, but I 
had modified Garmin IMG creation style sheets that would append "(4WD 
Only)" to the street name - similar to the tagging you see in the VicMap 
maps

Matt

John Smith wrote:
>
> --- On Sat, 18/7/09, Liz <edodd at billiau.net> wrote:
>
>   
>> this argument was held on the wiki and the smoothness deity
>> won somehow
>> we should just move to our preferred use
>> where dry_weather_only and 4WD_only are legal restrictions
>> (ignored only by those who are brave or stupid) 
>> but should ultimately appear in a routing scenario (whereas
>> speed limit change 
>> to 60kmh on a wet road is less important)
>>     
>
> 4WD_only or 4wd_only or 4wd? 
>
> Tagwatch shows all 3...
>
> 4WD_only=yes (3)
> 4wd=yes (2)
> 4wd_only=yes (15)
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