[OSM-talk] rural highway tagging: residential or track

[Chris Hill]

Stan Berka wrote:
> I have frequently a tagging dilemma. See this example: Coburn Rd on 
> this location: http://osm.org/go/ZfR@yOeG-- (N of US 2). It was tagged 
> as residential, but I've been there two days ago and it's a decent 
> "compacted gravel" road, almost 2-car wide primarily for agricultural 
> use, although it does connect farms, and probably can be even be used 
> as through-road (to get from one highway to another). Category 
> residential seemed to me to be primarily for urban setting. So, the 
> best I thought for this one would be "track". But this is rendered 
> almost like a path (the dashed line). What are your thoughts?
> droidguy
If it doesn't have houses along it I don't think it is residential. So I 
think your choice falls between highway=track and highway=unclassified, 
if it is driven along by Joe Public then I'd use unclassified. You can 
add surface=compacted to either to improve the detail.

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Cheers, Chris
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