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

[Mike Thompson]

On Tue, Feb 23, 2021 at 1:46 PM Zeke Farwell <ezekielf at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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
>
There are a number of houses along that road.  I would tag it
highway=residential.
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