[Talk-us] Best practices for dealing with old TIGER tags?

[Dion Dock]

I can guarantee I haven’t been on those roads.  :)  I’d call the former highway=tertiary because it has the centerline.  No centerline, I’d call it residential.

What I meant by “rural residential roads” looks a lot like http://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=17/47.89747/-118.10358.  Lost in the woods rural.

Gravel roads are tricky.  I’d probably say highway=residential, surface=gravel.  The wiki is more specific about highway=track for “agricultural or forest”; it didn’t say that in the past.  I’d like to see highway=gravel at the top level, since they’re s usually avoided by bicycles and motorcycles, but it’s too late for that now.

Again, it seems like the US is trying to take an official designation from elsewhere and apply it to our country.  Plus, since almost all of the TIGER import is highway=residential, changing roads to highway=unclassified is a monumental task.

-Dion

> From: Mark Wagner <mark+osm at carnildo.com>
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> On Sun, 5 Jun 2016 13:21:07 -0700
> Dion Dock <dion_dock at comcast.net> wrote:
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>> I think the rural residential roads are either “highway=service”,
>> “highway=track” or “highway=path”.  I think “highway=residential”
>> should always have a name.  Service might or might not have a name,
>> same for path and track.
> 
> You must be driving on a different set of roads than me.  Consider
> South Bank Road (OSM:
> https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=15/47.8602/-117.6751, Google:
> https://www.google.com/maps/@47.8555045,-117.6814056,14z).  It doesn't
> connect anywhere to anywhere, so it's not tertiary or above, but
> "highway=service" doesn't seem appropriate for a road that provides
> access to about a hundred scattered houses and two little-known parks,
> and "highway=track" seems wrong for eight miles of paved two-lane
> public road.
> 
> Or if that seems too built-up, how about Glenwood Road
> (OSM:https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=14/46.9380/-117.2812,
> Google: https://www.google.com/maps/@46.9391634,-117.2896051,14z).
> Four miles of high-quality two-lane gravel road, providing access to
> some farms and a home or two.
> 
> There's a definite need for a road level between "this is how you
> travel from town A to town B" and "this is how you make your final
> approach to your destination".  "highway=unclassified" seems like it
> works well there.
> 
> -- 
> Mark
>