Sounds to me like the best solution is: highway=tertiary surface=dirt (or gravel or whatever)
unfortunately, the current renderers don't do anything with the surface tag. Hopefully in the future they will though. In my opinion, the relative importance of a road should factor more heavily into the choice of highway tag that the physical characteristics of the road. Zeke Burlington, VT On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 11:55 AM, Richard Weait <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 11:26 AM, Alex Mauer <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 11/21/2009 12:11 AM, James Ewen wrote: > >> I guess you missed the rest of my post where I described these > >> roads. [ ... ] > > > Is there something wrong with using highway=unclassified for these? > > For the purposes of the newbies list, it is worth mentioning that > highway classifications are a match for legal highway classification > in England. Elsewhere, the 'right' classification will be a best-fit > to the standard tags based on local conditions and traditions. > > While it may be true that "you can tag anything in any way that you > please" it is expected by the rest of the community that you will tag > highways (and everything else) in a way that is acceptable to the rest > of the community. New mappers should consider and emulate the > practices adopted by other local mappers. > > Charlotte's original question about marking western, major, unpaved > roads as tertiary seems reasonable given that description. With a > planet as diverse and project as large as ours, it would be madness to > expect precisely uniform tagging from place to place. We'll have to > rely on our experienced local experts to do the right thing. > > _______________________________________________ > newbies mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/newbies >
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