[OSM-talk] Searching a word for tagging a special feature of a track

[Richard Mann]

On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 2:07 PM, Frank Sautter <openstreetmap at sautter.com>wrote:

>  On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 1:24 PM, Frank Sautter <openstreetmap at sautter.com<mailto:
>>> openstreetmap at sautter.com>>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Richard Mann wrote: There are an awful lot of track/grade1 in
>>>> Germany, and I would like to know what the typical surface is
>>>>
>>> here in germany we (mostly) we tag farmers or forestry roads
>>> ("Wirtschaftswege") that are not designed for very heavy vehicles
>>> and only few and slow traffic as highway=track. normally they are
>>> access restricted for this use.
>>>
>> Richard Mann wrote:
>
>> If they have access restrictions, does that mean they are maintained
>> by the landowner, rather than the local government?
>>
> no, the tracks are normally a parcel of land owned and maintained by the
> local commune (like all the residential roads).
> access restricted means that there are often signs like
> http://de.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Datei:Zeichen_260.svg or
> http://de.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Datei:Zeichen_250.svg with
> additional signs like
> http://de.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Datei:Zusatzzeichen_1024-17.svgand
> http://de.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Datei:Zusatzzeichen_1022-10.svg
> so no cars, motorbikes and lorries are allowed. they are just for farmers
> to access their fields and for bicyclists as a shortcut with almost no motor
> traffic or just for recreation walks.
>
> take a look at my hometown with a lot of those "Wirtschafswege"
> http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=48.6298&lon=9.009&zoom=13
>
> frank
>


English highway law generally starts from a position where there are no
access restrictions for highways that are the responsibility of local
government. So if there are no access restrictions, it would generally be a
local-govt road and tagged as unclassified.

If it's a local-govt way with access restrictions, the nearest thing we tend
to have is highway=cycleway, with some additional access for farm traffic
etc not generally seen as worth mentioning (you assume it exists by default
if required). We'd only tend to use highway=track for non-residential
privately-owned vehicular ways. Most fields can be accessed from a
local-govt open-access road, so we don't have all that many tracks.

Richard
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