[Talk-us] Fwd: Re: [OHM] Fwd: moving data from OSM to OHM - what should the markers be?

[Richard Welty]

On 5/18/15 9:22 AM, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote:
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>> Am 18.05.2015 um 15:11 schrieb Richard Welty <rwelty at averillpark.net>:
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>> in OSM, i tag at least the basic, visible course as highway=track,
>> with start_date and end_date when known (which is usually the
>> case for US and Canada tracks - i have references which
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> I am not familiar with the context/setting but wouldn't use highway track for a way that is not built for agricultural/forestral/fishing purposes, highway=raceway would be better (also because your start and end date tags are referring to this, not to the highway=track)
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well, it's no longer used as a raceway, which is the reason for going
to the disused: namespace for that tag. in theory they could become
active again, although in most cases that's very, very unlikely. i
doubt there will ever be a rendering specific to disused raceways and
i dont think we want them rendered the same way as active
raceways. disused: is there and works for this.

it's really kind of a hole in the tagging system. they were never public
roads and aren't now. they're not currently active raceways, but they
are visible artifacts. i could omit the highway tag altogether, in which
case they would not render on openstreetmap.org, which is ok with
me.

this is why i'm looking for input. i'm really pretty ok with not providing
a highway tag at all, as there isn't really a version that's right.

richard

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