On Fri, Jul 16, 2010 at 8:43 AM, John Smith <[email protected]> wrote: > That was what I was trying to figure out, is there a good reason for > such a tag, or is it going to just confuse people.
IMHO yes it's useful, because the paved/unpaved distinction is by far the most important one for roads. The problem is that surface=* is an unbounded list, so renderers potentially have to support surface=dirt, gravel, cobblestone, mud, cracked_concrete, rough, and whatever else peoples' fertile imaginations come up with. Having multiple layers of tags (ie, paved=no, surface=dirt) is much more re-use friendly. Steve _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
