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

Zeke Farwell ezekielf at gmail.com
Tue Feb 23 20:42:52 UTC 2021


On Tue, Feb 23, 2021 at 10:13 AM Kevin Kenny <kevin.b.kenny at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Can anyone present me an argument, other than a purely philosophical one,
> for why the distinction actually matters?
>

Because we're trying to build a useful geo data set where tags mean
things?  I'd hope we all want to work towards making things clearer for
data consumers going forward.  "It doesn't matter" is a poor foundation for
a data model.

Also plenty of tracks in my area aren't leaf nodes.  A few examples:
https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/231406664
https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/19704575
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