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 to check with the community.
Generally, in developed countries, highway=residential is predominantly used for public roads in/near nucleated settlements with housing alongside. It's more nuanced than simply "a road with a house on it" - "a road of residential character" would be closer. In the case you've pointed to I would therefore err towards highway=unclassified, surface=gravel (or =unpaved in the case of armchairing when the imagery's unclear). I wouldn't man the barricades against either =residential or =track, but the latter is best reserved for ungraded double-tracks and worse. _However_, I absolutely would man the barricades to advocate surface tags, and I'm really pleased to see you've added one. highway=track isn't ideal for this road, but it's a whole bunch better than highway=residential with no surface tag. There are a couple of places in the rural US (particularly Kansas, occasionally Oregon) where mappers have removed the tiger:reviewed tag on rural dirt/gravel roads without adding a surface tag, at which point the road is indistinguishable from a nice paved street in a housing estate and routing basically goes to s--t. (In retrospect... when the TIGER import was run, we should have imported A41-class roads as highway=residential in urban areas, and highway=road, fixme=yes in rural areas, using urban area polygons to distinguish between the two. But that's all natural=water under the bridge=yes.) cheers Richard -- View this message in context: http://gis.19327.n5.nabble.com/highway-track-vs-residential-tp5864267p5864323.html Sent from the Tagging mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
