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

[Simon Poole]

Am 25.02.2021 um 08:52 schrieb Mateusz Konieczny via Talk-us:
> ...
> This people were apparently uninformed and unaware about:
> https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:highway%3Droad 
> <https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:highway%3Droad>
> "This tag is used for a road/way/path/street/alley/motorway/etc. with 
> an unknown classification"
> highway=road with surface tag is perfectly fine tagging if exact 
> highway value is unclear
> ...

Except that the way will be unroutable, and all the other things listed 
on the page.

highway=road is a left over from the really old days of OSM before we 
had aerial imagery and the likes and IMHO should in general not be used 
at all any more. It is a far better approach to guess a (low) 
classification than to use "road". Very definitely if you are in the 
position to determine a surface value you are in the position to set an 
appropriate proper highway value.



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