I understand it can be frustrating when trying to communicate ideas to others across the internet. I apologize to the other readers of this thread, but when I try to contact the original poster directly, he keeps referring back to this thread instead, so I will address the issues here.
I agree with this point of view, and yet you change all unclassified roads I tag to track, including ones that are maintained year round and including ones I drive on with a Prius with barely any ground clearance.
And yet a road that was on the map for 6 and a half years as a two-lane unpaved secondary road remained unchanged by you, but 3 days after I changed it to a single-lane unclassified road, you changed it to a track. https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/146818656/history Not an isolated incident either, and I can provide links to many instances where roads were tagged as secondary for 6+ years, but my changes were edited days after I made a change.
You are the person who keeps directing me to specific wiki pages, and then complains when I present information from those pages that support my point of view. I have even adjusted the way I tag to try and come to a compromise, yet it is me you call inflexible.
Why are you always so aggressive towards me, instead of just debating the issue? Even your opening post was a finger pointing directly at my profile.
I was the one who restarted the conversation instead of mass-changing another person’s edits.
I understand that and agree. I do add a lot of new roads into the database. There are many instances where I add roads and you change the tags, but you do not add to the unfinished road network in that area. Instead, you wait until I map more of it, then you change it again. Can you look at it from my point of view and see why that would be frustrating?
The few people who have responded to this forum thread have weighed in on both sides: some make use of unclassified+track for unpaved roads and some only use track+tracktype.
Simply untrue. I explained in a previous post about my past mapping practices, but these roads (and most of the existing unpaved road network in Newfoundland) were mapped 6+ years ago as unpaved secondary roads.
I want to avoid a tagging war and I would greatly appreciate your help in extending the unpaved road network in Newfoundland. As two mappers who are mapping the same regions, is there a way we can come to a working compromise instead of stalling on a question over tags? Even if it is something temporary, like I will not change the tags on roads you create and you do the same for roads I add?