* Tod Fitch <t...@fitchdesign.com> [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 tell on the imagery.
> But looking at the satellite imagery in the area you linked, they clearly > look like unpaved residential roads and dirt driveways. > I’d leave the driveways in but change the tagging to: > highway=service > service=driveway > surface=unpaved > access=private I would do almost the same, but would leave out the access=private, as this is difficult to determine from the aerial imagery, and is implied for service=driveway anyway. > For the roads, clearly wider and serving multiple houses in the satellite > imagery and with names showing in the 2015 Tiger imagery, I’d tag them as > highway=residential > surface=unpaved > name=(whatever the Tiger 2015 imagery says) 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 between these types of road as well. Wolfgang _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging