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

brad bradhaack at fastmail.com
Wed Feb 24 20:13:03 UTC 2021


+1   Most the roads around me, or places that I've visited,  that are 
good dirt or gravel are not 'track'.    IMHO a track is a poorly 
maintained 2 track or jeep road.


On 2/24/21 12:06 PM, Clifford Snow wrote:
>
>
> On Wed, Feb 24, 2021 at 10:57 AM Brian M. Sperlongano 
> <zelonewolf at gmail.com <mailto:zelonewolf at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     So, I realize that "any dirt or gravel road" is the most broad
>     interpretation of highway=track, but if you follow the ref, it's
>     taken directly from the West Virginia wiki page which discusses
>     road classification in that state.  I took that at face value that
>     WV mappers actually have that interpretation.  Since I haven't
>     exhaustively looked at all of the state wiki pages, I don't know
>     if that's a unique interpretation or is an interpretation that is
>     representative of a broader subset of US mappers.  The goal of
>     writing that section in the wiki is to document how we actually
>     map in the absence of any prescriptive guidance from community
>     consensus.
>
>     However, dear US mappers, if we as a community feel that this
>     interpretation sourced from WV's page is overbroad and not an
>     appropriate usage in the US, it is entirely within our power to
>     form a consensus otherwise and document that instead.
>
> I have lived in a number of US states. I agree that definition is 
> overly broad. For example, close friends live in a rural area with a 
> dirt road leading to their property. It is well maintained and 
> definitely not a track.
>
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