The wiki has stated for years that only the motorway tag implies anything about the physical attributes of a road, and all the other highway=* tags (trunk, primary, secondary, etc.) indicate the importance of the road in the road network. Just because a road is built as a divided highway doesn't always mean that it's more important than a two-lane road.

>So if a road is paved but not open for public, a bridge structure is complete but not open for public, should we remove construction tag and add tag Access=no?

I think that's fine. In fact, I've often seen that done in other countries like Germany.

@stevea, I'm okay with you changing the tags to railway=light_rail as long as we tag it in such a way to indicate that it's not yet open to the public.

And it's currently being used by light rail trains only, not by heavy rail trains. I strongly disagree with the current tagging of railway=rail.

Is there any reason why this can't just be tagged as railway=light_rail but with an access=no tag to indicate that it is not open to the public? I disagree with tagging as railway=rail because it is not heavy rail.

When you downgrade a road from trunk, please add the expressway=yes tag if it is a divided highway like this one. Thanks!!

Hi, when you downgrade a road from trunk to primary, make sure to add the expressway=yes tag if it's a divided highway like this one. This will preserve the physical characteristic of expressway that was formerly indicated by use of the trunk tag.

Also, are you using this wiki page as a guide for what roads should be trunk or not? osm.wiki/User:Dulahey/Oklahoma_Highway_Classification_Proposal
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Wilderness areas should not have the natural=wood tag. Not every square foot of area in these protected areas is covered in forest, so this tag is inaccurate and I am going to remove it.

I noticed you tagged this section with access=no, which basically implies that the road is closed, which is probably not what you intended.

Hi, please don't tag wilderness areas with natural=wood. Not all of that area is actually covered in forest, as there are many lakes, meadows, etc.

Ok thanks for the info. Wanted to make sure it hasn't reopened and you'd forgotten to update it.

Is this road still closed?

Hello, the consensus in the US community is that roads with only one interchange sandwiched between at-grade intersections are too short to be tagged as motorway and should be tagged as trunk or lower.

Yes, that tag is meant for lakes that are usually dry except for brief periods when there's lots of rain.

Is Dorena Lake really an intermittent/seasonal lake?

Hi, please don't tag roads as motorway unless there are at least two consecutive interchanges. I will be changing this back to trunk.

Also why did you edit parts of OK 37 such that they now randomly jump between trunk and secondary?

I must admit that even though I've been on OSM for over ten years, I don't fully understand the highway=track tag. So don't expect to have a full, thorough understanding of the highway tags right away.

I'd also suggest you look at the examples on the wiki page to get a better idea of what roads should be tagged as highway= service.

Usually unclassified or track is the correct tag for a forest service road, with track being for roads only used for logging out that are no longer maintained. A service road is basically analogous to a driveway and is not on a public right of way.

Hello, I noticed you tagged this as highway=road. However that tag is only to be used when the road type is not known; that was not the case here. I have changed it back to highway=unclassified.