Talk:West Virginia

Mapping unpaved County Roads as highway=track?

This page suggests "If the surface is dirt/gravel at some point, then the portion of the road should be tagged as highway=track but still keeping the ref on the portion of the road." Can someone point out an example where this is currently done? Is this really correct tagging or just a way of tagging for the renderer to get a different result for unpaved roads? --Jeisenbe (talk) 06:46, 23 February 2021 (UTC)

Note talk-us discussion on this point [1], which seems to indicate an emerging US consensus that highway=track should not be tagged in this way. --ZeLonewolf (talk) 19:14, 24 February 2021 (UTC)

Regarding new county road tagging suggestions

Regarding this clause:

When a County Road connects a primary road, should be tagged as highway=tertiary, whether it has stripes on the road or not;

I personally disagree. There are tons of county highways which, despite terminating at primary highways at one or both ends, are inarguably low- or local-traffic and are not the first choice of interconnect for locals. —Sterling (talk) 12:25, 13 September 2021 (UTC)

@Ssterling: Yeah, this is especially true if the county road is windier or steeper than the alternatives. I don't think a blanket statement would be appropriate for a state with such a rugged terrain. – Minh Nguyễn ^💬 01:56, 14 September 2021 (UTC)

@Ssterling: @Minh Nguyen: What about those roads, which interconnect an interstate with a secondary road directly? See here: osm:way/15640117 I mean, yeah, i'm gonna put the roads to tertiary ONLY if they have stripes, but it's so complicated based on the terrain. But yeah, if WV had a normal road tagging guideline like VT or RI etc has, that'd be awesome. Like, i wanted to set up a schema, because for me "tag county roads as tertiary, or residential but not track", just the term tertiary is like a broad thing. In general it says, it's an interconnecting route. Residential is like a low-usage street (or road, in this case, but since I live in a country where there are no residential roads outside the municipalities aka they somehow have a reference number either signed or not, that's why this is a bit rugged for me). Ottwiz (talk) 14:51, 20 September 2021 (UTC)

@Ottwiz: I never said a county road can't be highway=secondary. That one has more than stripes; it has multiple lanes and, as you pointed out, is pretty important for connecting through routes. Common sense dictates that it be given a higher class than a poorly maintained county road winding through a hollow. Road classification should only use route membership as a starting point, never as the sole factor in road classification. – Minh Nguyễn ^💬 02:21, 21 September 2021 (UTC)

Per-county uniqueness of HARP and Delta roads

Turns out HARP roads are unique on a county basis—that is, no two HARP routes can have the same number in a given county, but can share the same number if in different counties. I believed otherwise up until now because, despite having seen perhaps fifty in six or so different counties, I’d never noticed two HARP roads with the same number, till just a couple days prior to writing this: HARP 907 in Wood, and HARP 907 in Wirt. (I have yet to map them.) I contacted the WVDOH, and turns out delta roads were county-unique as well. Anyway, I updated the page to reflect all this. —Sterling (talk) 19:12, 8 June 2022 (UTC)