[OSM-talk] The Return of the Highway tags and other junk

[Kristian Thy]

On Mon, Dec 18, Ben Robbins wrote:
> >>So when are tracks not private?  I've never heard of a track, wich has 
> >>the access rights of a track.  It will always be something like a byway 
> >>or bridleway, wich need to be stated.
> 
> >In countries with no bridleways or byways, that statement is patently
> >false. Here, a track is a track is a track.
> 
> So anything that is untarmacked in your county/region is public and the 
> laws are defined as a track?  It sounds to me like a track that has public 
> rights of way, rather than a track that has the rights of a track.  Unless 
> im mistaken and in your country/region every single track is by law 
> accessable by all, with the same standadised accsess rules.

See, here's your problem: "A track that has the right of a track" makes
no sense to me. You are trying to make the world conform to your
ethnocentric view of what a road is. Here, a track does not have any
inherent legal status (that I am aware of, at least). It is, simply,
an unpaved road. Most of these are probably private, but I do know of
some that are public with unlimited access for vehicular traffic - i.e.
they are like any other unclassified road except for being unpaved.

\\kristian
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