[OSM-talk] highway=unsurfaced

[edodd at billiau.net]

> On Fri, 2011-01-21 at 19:30 +0000, Steve Doerr wrote:
>> > Nothing official, but it would be very unusual for anybody to call
>> > something that wasn't surfaced a road.
>>
>> Unless they were expatriates in a third-world country?
>
> please refrain from such remarks - I suppose you think we map by snake
> charming while riding on elephant back?
> --

I considered that remark yesterday while driving at > 80kmh on a well made
unsurfaced road in what is probably a second-world country, although the
term has never been commonly used.
My rough method of deciding track or road would be:
A track is made by feet or wheels and is not 'improved'.
A road will have had work done on it to 'improve' the surface, for example
with a grader.