[Talk-us] Labeling forestry service roads/tracks

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Clifford,

Could you repost the legend? It's hard/impossible to make out the
surface reliably from aerial photos.

On 2020/07/20 14:18, Clifford Snow wrote:
> If you are using JOSM there is a USFS road layer. The color of the way
> indicates surface and highway classification if I remember correctly. I
> posted the legend on Slack a couple of years ago. 
> 
> The TIGER import data quality varied from region to region. Even today
> in Washington State it's bad, so bad that I don't recommend using it. My
> guess is that it's low priority for counties to update Feds, especially
> when their budgets are already tight. There is even one county in
> Washington State that they don't even have a current road layer. 
> 
> Best,
> Clifford
> 
> On Sun, Jul 19, 2020 at 3:48 PM <tj-osmwiki at lowsnr.net
> <mailto:tj-osmwiki at lowsnr.net>> wrote:
> 
>     Hi folks,
> 
>     Editing in Boundary County, Idaho in the Panhandle, I've been extending
>     the forest landuse area around Bonners Ferry and have come across a
>     difficulty in classifying forest roads.
> 
>     It seems that many have been automatically imported and have
>     highway=residential, which is just plain wrong.
> 
>     For roads that appear metalled (paved) and/or access mines, quarries,
>     communication towers etc. I label highway=service, for roads that are
>     unpaved or sometimes seem to almost fade out I label highway=track. 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.
> 
>     Is there a more consistent recommended method?
> 
>     The US Topo map gives forest road references so I add ref FS xxxx.
> 
>     TIGER seems to be at best very coarse, at worst fictional.
> 
>     Thanks.
> 
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