[Talk-us] Labeling forestry service roads/tracks

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Mike,

Good idea on the route references. What should the network be set to?

On 2020/07/20 7:56, Mike Thompson wrote:
> 
> 
> On Sun, Jul 19, 2020 at 4:49 PM <tj-osmwiki at lowsnr.net
> <mailto: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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