[talk-au] Adding river crossings to Guidelines "road quality / 4wd-only"?

[Warin]

On 10/8/22 12:06, Graeme Fitzpatrick wrote:
> Cleared a note to add a ford / river-crossing to a road in Cape York: 
> https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/1025490234, & added both a "ford" 
> node, & also changed the actual river crossing to a track with 4wd 
> only & similar tags.
>

I am getting less 'comfortable' with tagging the road class (track in 
this and other cases) as an indication of road condition (rough).


A track in Canberra (Way: Forest Drive (37058806) "highway"="track" 
"surface"="gravel" "tracktype"="grade2" "width"="5" 
https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/37058806) may well be in better 
condition than, say,

Way: Great Central Road (186988736)  "highway"="primary" 
"surface"="unpaved" https://www.openstreetmap.org/way186988736

Way: Tanami Road (188690200)  "highway"="primary" "surface"="unpaved" 
https://www.openstreetmap.org/way188690200


etc...


The issue is clear ... road classification should be about the 
use/importance of the road.

The road condition should be tagged using surface/roughness tags ... the 
problem of rendering is the issue that mappers (including me) try to 
address some times by tagging for the render... and is hard to resist!