[Talk-us] Usage of highway=track in the United States

[Frederik Ramm]

Hi,

On 2/20/21 00:56, Brian M. Sperlongano wrote:
> US mappers: how do you apply highway=track in the US?

If I may add a question: If you use highway=track what kind of access do
you think is implied? Would it generally be safe to assume that I can
drive along a highway=track with my Jeep if highway=track is all that
OpenStreetMap tells me, or should I look for an explicit access=yes or
motor_vehicle=yes before I do?

Asking with DWG work in mind, where we often get complaints like "your
map shows a private track trough my property pls delete immediately or
else". Then we usually offer to add access=private. But sometimes I
wonder, is it perhaps more likely for a random highway=track to be
private? Should that maybe even be the default?

Bye
Frederik

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