[Talk-ca] BC Resource Roads

[Brian Gamberg]

 In Newfoundland, they're called resource roads, and while they are maintained in the  summer, they are not plowed in the winter.  So, in the winter they are only used as skidoo or ATV trails.  How about proposing a new tag like highway=resource-road ?

 Incidentally, geofabrik's OSM inspector flags highway=road as an error (Under the highways category).  

On Monday, November 12, 2012 6:59 PM, Paul Norman <penorman at mac.com> wrote: 
> I was importing some CanVec in northern BC and came across a resource road 
> on bing, which I also added, but I realized I wasn't positive on the best 
> tagging. 
>  
> A typical example is 
> http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=59.395&lon=-122.074&zoom=16 
>  
> These roads exist for forestry and oil and gas use. In this particular 
> region they're primarily built for accessing oil and gas leases and have 
> trucks running to/from the wells. They aren't generally used for through 
> traffic. 
>  
> They are almost always unpaved but maintained to some minimum standard. 
>  
> There seem to be to be three obvious tagging choices (aside from 
> highway=road which is never wrong) 
>  
> highway=track 
> tracktype=grade1 
>  
> highway=service 
> surface=unpaved 
>  
> highway=unclassified 
> surface=unpaved 
>  
> I am in favour of the first (track with tracktype) but would like to get 
> some thoughts from others. 
>  
> As an aside, these roads are not in Google, CanVec or any other sources I 
> quickly checked. 
>  
>  
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