[Talk-ca] aerial imagery for missing roads

[Begin Daniel]

Missing access=no and access=private tags I understand...
Daniel

-----Original Message-----
From: Stewart C. Russell [mailto:scruss at gmail.com] 
Sent: June-24-16 22:45
To: talk-ca at openstreetmap.org
Subject: Re: [Talk-ca] aerial imagery for missing roads

On 2016-06-23 10:26 PM, Pierre Béland wrote:
> 
> Going north outside of urban zones, there are many tracks for lumber 
> areas. Hard to assess the accessibility of such roads for cars.

Most logging roads, certainly in BC, are private. While they look large, and make tempting additions to the map, accidentally routing traffic along them could be fatal. Logging trucks don't (can't!) stop, and unless you have authorization and the right radio to call in the checkpoints, the controller won't be able to tell you if there's a truck coming that you need to get out of the way of.

CanVec also mistakenly digitized a bunch of private wind farm access roads in Ontario, such as https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/39334427 .
While using these might not be life-threatening, it is trespassing to use them.

cheers,
 Stewart

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