Talk:Highway examples

First photo

Can we find a better example of a residential street - this looks like it could be unclassified--Pobice 09:33, 11 December 2010 (UTC)

Use of disputed/unapproved tags

Can we drop smoothness and usability? Can probably still live with usability. For a start none of them appear to be actually smoothness=bad to me!--Pobice 09:33, 11 December 2010 (UTC)

1 1/2 years later: OK. I removed the tag under discussion like usability=thin_wheels

Path -> Track

Some examples were tagged as path. Many people map routes not according to access rights but to it appearance. If a tractor could drive along a route it is a track of grade5. If even a car could go along it is grade1. Glad 18:26, 16 May 2012 (BST)

Most, even all cycleways are wider than a hgv. It's been repeatedly corrected, that the width requirement works only in the other direction; a "track" can not be a track, if it is narrower than a motorcar/tractor, but all of footway/cycleway/bridleway/path can be just about any width. I'm changing those back. Alv 12:31, 20 May 2012 (BST)

And that's a totally new kind of made up distinction, that a footway is "a small path". A footway is any route segment, which is either only allowed for pedestrians, or is mainly used only by pedestrians, even if it would allow cyclists. In some places users have come up with the idea that only signposted footways exist. I really need to write down the decision trees for both common approaches to tagging these. Alv 13:09, 20 May 2012 (BST)

In the german article about highway=track a very good (IMO) decision tree exists regarding highway=track and highway=unclassified. Maybe we should write decision trees for the most common highway values? --Imagic 14:25, 20 May 2012 (BST)