Re: [Tagging] highway = track vs. residential

2016-01-09 Thread Mateusz Konieczny
On Sat, 9 Jan 2016 15:02:19 +0100 Wolfgang Zenker wrote: > * Mateusz Konieczny [160109 13:12]: > > On Fri, 8 Jan 2016 10:50:37 +0100 > > Wolfgang Zenker wrote: > > >> * Tod Fitch [160107 23:35]: > >>> My parents house is in a pretty rural part of Arizona and > >>> distinguishing between track

Re: [Tagging] highway = track vs. residential

2016-01-09 Thread Wolfgang Zenker
* Mateusz Konieczny [160109 13:12]: > On Fri, 8 Jan 2016 10:50:37 +0100 > Wolfgang Zenker wrote: >> * Tod Fitch [160107 23:35]: >>> My parents house is in a pretty rural part of Arizona and >>> distinguishing between tracks and driveways or even residential >>> roads can be difficult there. So

Re: [Tagging] highway = track vs. residential

2016-01-09 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
sent from a phone > Am 09.01.2016 um 13:12 schrieb Mateusz Konieczny : > > In case of known access=private access it should be tagged explicitly +1, generally, don't rely on defaults, add known information. Defaults are for data consumers (i.e. they decide how to deal with cases where they m

Re: [Tagging] highway = track vs. residential

2016-01-09 Thread Mateusz Konieczny
On Fri, 8 Jan 2016 10:50:37 +0100 Wolfgang Zenker wrote: > * Tod Fitch [160107 23:35]: > > My parents house is in a pretty rural part of Arizona and > > distinguishing between tracks and driveways or even residential > > roads can be difficult there. So my initial instinct was to say > > leave t

Re: [Tagging] highway = track vs. residential

2016-01-08 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Greg Troxel wrote: > I more or less agree, from the US point of view, except that > highway=residential has a meaning of something that is > legally a road. highway=residential in the US _largely_ has the meaning "this was imported from TIGER feature code A41 and hasn't been changed". One import

Re: [Tagging] highway = track vs. residential

2016-01-08 Thread Greg Troxel
Florian Lohoff writes: > public property - residential buildings > highway=residential > surface=gravel > > private property - residential buildings > highway=service > surface=gravel > service=driveway I more or less agree, from the US point of view, except that h

Re: [Tagging] highway = track vs. residential

2016-01-08 Thread Richard Fairhurst
dieterdreist wrote: > what's your stance on service? Slightly difficult one, but I'd tend to concur with Florian that it's best used for roads on private property (roughly "access-only"). When I use it I always try and add an access and (if unpaved) surface tag - it's too ambiguous otherwise. che

Re: [Tagging] highway = track vs. residential

2016-01-08 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
2016-01-08 11:57 GMT+01:00 Richard Fairhurst : > I wouldn't man the barricades against either > =residential or =track, but the latter is best reserved for ungraded > double-tracks and worse. > what's your stance on service? Cheers, Martin ___ Tagging

Re: [Tagging] highway = track vs. residential

2016-01-08 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Mike Thompson wrote: > Although these are gravel surfaced roads (not yet tagged that way, > but physically that is what they are), the ones in question provide > access to two or more homes and/or ranches. To me these are > not "tracks" but "residential." Before I change these back, I > wanted

Re: [Tagging] highway = track vs. residential

2016-01-08 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
2016-01-08 10:50 GMT+01:00 Wolfgang Zenker : > I would use highway=unclassified instead of residential as long as we > are not inside a settlement; the implied rules like default speed limits > tend to be different for inner-town roads and these rural roads and the > tagging should distinguish bet

Re: [Tagging] highway = track vs. residential

2016-01-08 Thread Wolfgang Zenker
* Tod Fitch [160107 23:35]: > My parents house is in a pretty rural part of Arizona and distinguishing > between tracks and driveways or even residential roads can be difficult > there. So my initial instinct was to say leave the ways in that part of > Colorado as tracks as it can be hard to te

Re: [Tagging] highway = track vs. residential

2016-01-08 Thread Florian Lohoff
On Thu, Jan 07, 2016 at 03:15:00PM -0700, Mike Thompson wrote: > I am editing in Colorado, US in a rural part of the state. I do have first > hand knowledge of the area. It looks like someone has gone through and > changed many ways tagged "highway = residential" to "highway = track." For > exampl

Re: [Tagging] highway = track vs. residential

2016-01-07 Thread John Willis
Javbw > On Jan 8, 2016, at 8:43 AM, Dave Swarthout wrote: > > hat is used for agricultural or other purposes Question on that: https://goo.gl/maps/Nvbmz1Z4bJp We have a lot of public roads in Japan that, on import, were set to "unclassified". In rural areas - many are wrong. But as the r

Re: [Tagging] highway = track vs. residential

2016-01-07 Thread Dave Swarthout
This is something we go round and round with in Thailand as well. Highway=track is usually but not always a smaller, narrower way, either paved or unpaved, that is used for agricultural or other purposes. It is not a connector link between towns nor does it normally have residences alongside of it.

Re: [Tagging] highway = track vs. residential

2016-01-07 Thread Mateusz Konieczny
On Thu, 7 Jan 2016 15:15:00 -0700 Mike Thompson wrote: > I am editing in Colorado, US in a rural part of the state. I do have > first hand knowledge of the area. It looks like someone has gone > through and changed many ways tagged "highway = residential" to > "highway = track." For example: >

Re: [Tagging] highway = track vs. residential

2016-01-07 Thread Tod Fitch
My parents house is in a pretty rural part of Arizona and distinguishing between tracks and driveways or even residential roads can be difficult there. So my initial instinct was to say leave the ways in that part of Colorado as tracks as it can be hard to tell on the imagery. But looking at th

[Tagging] highway = track vs. residential

2016-01-07 Thread Mike Thompson
I am editing in Colorado, US in a rural part of the state. I do have first hand knowledge of the area. It looks like someone has gone through and changed many ways tagged "highway = residential" to "highway = track." For example: https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/6152252#map=16/40.7825/-105.1985