[Talk-us] Labeling forestry service roads/tracks

[Dave Swarthout]

Mike, welcome to the real world. Tiger street data is better than nothing
but not much. It's positionally inaccurate and many roads are wrongly
classified. a rough guide at best. I do use the Tiger Roads 2019 overlay to
add names to streets and roads though. The names are reasonably accurate in
my experience.

On Mon, Jul 20, 2020 at 5:57 AM Mike Thompson <miketho16 at gmail.com> wrote:

>
>
> 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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