[Talk-us] Labeling forestry service roads/tracks

[Mike Thompson]

On Sun, Jul 19, 2020 at 4:49 PM <tj-osmwiki at lowsnr.net> wrote:

>  For
> roads that appear to be public access (e.g. to go to a lake) but are
> obviously even more minor than tertiary roads I label highway=unclassified.
>
highway=unclassified are for roads that connect small towns, or for "local
traffic", while access to a lake could be considered "local traffic", I
would think it would be better if these would be highway=service, or
highway=track.


> The US Topo map gives forest road references so I add ref FS xxxx.
>
That is what I have been doing as well. Some are recommending that they be
made into route relations, which I am starting to do.

>
> TIGER seems to be at best very coarse, at worst fictional.
>
+1

Mike
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