[OSM-talk] highway=unsurfaced

[Håkon Enger]

On Mon, 1 Oct 2007, Nick Whitelegg wrote:

> it would
> be nice to be able to distinguish between paths and tracks. To me
> highway=track implies a private track (no public access at all).

Ok, here is another problem for a non-native English speaker: I don't 
understand the difference between a track and a path at all. Wikipedia 
doesn't seem to help either, according to the page for "path", it may 
refer to a "track", and "track" may mean "Trail, an informal road or 
pathway" ("pathway" being a synonym for "path", I guess...)

Anyway, public access (or not) is generally specified with the "access" 
tag (or "motorcar", "horse", etc.) and should IMHO not be implied from the 
"highway" tag. (I would assume all roads not tagged with "access=private" 
or similar to be accessible by the public.)

   Håkon