[Talk-us] USFS Roads

[Paul Johnson]

On Fri, Aug 27, 2021 at 6:22 AM Max Erickson <maxerickson at gmail.com> wrote:

> Grinding through the history a bit, it appears that the forest service
> road discussion on
> https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/United_States_roads_tagging has
> historically been a couple of different unilateral standards
> (proposals?) that haven't been broadly used. Changing it again
> probably isn't going to improve tagging consistency much.


 I think part of the problem, and it took me a while to realize it myself,
is that there's not a single unified "Forest Service" network, each
National Forest is its own network.   And while most National Forests
largely subscribe to a unified numbering scheme, I'm aware of a few
(particularly in California like Angeles National Forest) that throws some
weird curveballs by throwing letters into the refs as well.  That said,
looking up at
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/United_States_roads_tagging#National_Forest_Road_System,
it seems this has largely been rectified at this point.
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