On Wed, Feb 12, 2020 at 10:38:14PM +0000, Philip Barnes wrote: > > Asphalt is certainly not an unnecessary tag in the UK. > > Whilst its safe to assume all roads are paved unless tagged otherwise. A > small number of lesser roads may not be paved. > > The same assumptions cannot be made about asphalt, a significant part of the > motorway and trunk expressway network are concrete, which is evil noisy > stuff and suffers from poor drainage.
Well, yes, I thought that someone might say that. But such cases are very much the minority (except perhaps for motorways), which is why asphalt is still a reasonable default. I would expect an explicit tag for anything which is not asphalt. Again we are talking about the UK here. ael _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
