[Tagging] Tagging of larger surfaces for rendering and routing

Hi, As followup for: http://forum.openstreetmap.org/viewtopic.php?id=55457 https://github.com/gravitystorm/openstreetmap-carto/issues/2282 The problem; Consider a large area that doesn't have explicit roads. It could be a field of grass or a sahara of sand. Typically such surfaces are

Re: [Tagging] Tagging of larger surfaces for rendering and routing

IMHO, the value of the highway tag should define its use, not the surface from which it is made. So highway=pedestrian (or service or ...), surface=grass; area=yes makes more sense to me (or would you start defining highway=paving_stones, cobblestones, etc. as well ?). A renderer could look at

Re: [Tagging] Tagging of larger surfaces for rendering and routing

On zondag 14 augustus 2016 22:43:04 CEST, Marc Gemis wrote: IMHO, the value of the highway tag should define its use, not the surface from which it is made. So highway=pedestrian (or service or ...), surface=grass; area=yes makes more sense to me (or would you start defining

Re: [Tagging] Tagging of larger surfaces for rendering and routing

On Sun, Aug 14, 2016 at 11:24 PM, Stefan de Konink wrote: > Personally I find highway=service, surface=grass, area=yes appropriate for > the camping site but not when it rendered as paved road. Then you have to create/search for/ask for a renderer that displays the data in the