[OSM-talk] Dirt Roads in Mapnik, default render in OSM

[Lester Caine]

Florian Lohoff wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 23, 2013 at 03:40:33PM +0200, Maarten Deen wrote:
>> >I think the general idea is that track is a dirt roads fit for
>> >two-tracked vehicles (cars, agricultural) and path is a dirt road
>> >fit for one-tracked vehicles (because too narrow for two-tracked).
> A track is for aggricultural purposes - As soon there is the school
> bus or waste collection trucks passing it CANT be a track.
>
> Its either highway=service/service=driveway or an unclassified - it
> might have a surface=dirt/grass whatever.

Sorry, but this is the whole problem with the way things had been reorganised. 
'Dirt' trackways need to be rendered in a different way to highway=service, and 
from a rendering point of view having to search other tags to modify the base 
rendering, and also routing, is just wrong. So I will not use highway=service 
for trackways around here that are still used by school buses, refuse trucks and 
delivery lorries. As a result tracks that are only suitable for agricultural 
access get tagged as paths to distinguish them from the ones that are used more 
publically, but are not 'highways'. Sat Nav routing is giving some strange 
results and long detours avoiding some of these public trackways so sorting this 
out is important.

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