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

[Ben Robbins]

>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.

"A track that has the right of a track"   It makes no sence to me either!  
thats my point!  I am awair that it is an unpaved road.  In that case it is 
a track with the political status of a road (unclasisifed/secondary/primary 
etcetc).  If some are private and some are public then another tag is needed 
to say which....wich then means that track is just discribing its phisical 
feature.

Please just stop with the ukist or ethnocnetric critisms.  Its not.  As I 
keep saying.  Gravel in one place is gravel some where else.  The only good 
arguement that would invovle the track definitions to be tweaked for local 
use is how they are in austraila.

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