[Talk-ca] Forestry Roads

[Tristan Anderson]

This is how I tag forestry roads:

tertiary: major logging roads in remote areas, sometimes also access mines or hydro dams.  Well graded, suitable for all vehicles although most traffic is often trucks, usually wide enough for vehicles to pass without slowing down.  They're often hundreds of kilometers long with long straight sections, and can connect remote towns or first nation reserves.  Still owned by logging companies so should be access=permissive.

unclassified: narrower but still drivable with a mid-size front-wheel drive car, may lead to hunting lodges or lakes for boating/fishing/camps... not exclusively forestry traffic but primarily a forestry road.  Usually access=permissive.

service: mostly for logging activities, accessing current or former clear-cutting sites.  Usually access=private, especially if there are "no trespassing" or "authorized vehicles only" type signs.  Also service would be any road behind a gate that is closed to regular traffic.

track: two tire tracks with vegetation growing in the middle, regardless of where it goes or who uses it... can be packed gravel (grade2) right down to ATV/feller buncher tracks (grade5).  Grade1 generally refers to paved tracks, the likes of which I have never seen or heard of in Canada.

http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:highway
Should be track
Roads for mostly agricultural or forestry uses. To describe the quality of a track, see tracktype=*. Note: Although tracks are often rough with unpaved surfaces, this tag is not describing the quality of a road but its use. Consequently, if you want to tag a general use road, use one of the general highway values instead of track.
On Jul 15, 2015 7:15 PM, "Steve Roy" <steve at ssni.ca> wrote:
Whenever I have created forestry roads I have used highway=track -

particularly if I know the road is rough and unmaintained.

These are your typical BC forestry roads that are able to be used after

logging is completed in the area and the roads haven't been

de-activated.  I have had people change them to

highway=minor/unclassified after my edits are done and for the most part

I leave them unless I know the road is a rough/4x4 road, the kind you

wouldn't take a Honda Civic on.



However I have been emailing with a person adding forestry roads on

Vancouver Island and they insist on the tag highway=service for their

edits when mapping forestry roads.  These aren't the main A to B

forestry roads, rather smaller gravel roads.



What is the correct tag in Canada?



Thanks

Steve Roy



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