Re: [talk-au] surface=unsealed in 4wd/dirt road tagging

2013-07-03 Thread David Bannon
On 03/07/13 08:52, Steve Bennett wrote: FYI, the map style I'm working on for cycle touring does make this distinction: http://emscycletours.site44.com/map2.html#egrt Nice work ! You might be right - but on a technical front, it's no more burdensome to show all of [unsealed, unpaved, gravel,

Re: [talk-au] surface=unsealed in 4wd/dirt road tagging

2013-07-02 Thread Steve Bennett
On Tue, Jul 2, 2013 at 8:42 PM, David Bannon dban...@internode.on.net wrote: Just a thought here, we'd really like the renderers to show unpaved/unsealed/whatever roads differently from sealed ones. In particular, the mapnik rendered slippery map on the OSM website FYI, the map style I'm

Re: [talk-au] surface=unsealed in 4wd/dirt road tagging

2013-07-02 Thread Ian Sergeant
On 3 July 2013 08:52, Steve Bennett stevag...@gmail.com wrote: Also a quick stat for you. 165,000 highways in Australia have a surface tag. 718,000 don't. Surprising stat. Especially considering paved is considered the default. it's no more burdensome to show all of [unsealed, unpaved,

Re: [talk-au] surface=unsealed in 4wd/dirt road tagging

2013-07-02 Thread Steve Bennett
On Wed, Jul 3, 2013 at 9:03 AM, Ian Sergeant inas66+...@gmail.com wrote: Surprising stat. Especially considering paved is considered the default. Yeah - I try to specify it wherever possible though, outside cities. I really like multi-level tags. natural=water water=lake surface=unpaved

Re: [talk-au] surface=unsealed in 4wd/dirt road tagging

2013-06-29 Thread David Bannon
Ian, at the time, someone, I am not sure who, preferred 'unsealed' arguing that unpaved did not mean the same thing. Roads can be sealed in ways that do not really mean paved. Personally, I did not care, being more interested in getting it documented so we all used the same tag. However, now,