On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 6:04 PM, Paul Fox <[email protected]> wrote: > is there a way to distinguish pavement type separately from > road classification? is there a standard tag for doing so?
surface=foo http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:surface > in new england (and i assume in other parts of the country) > it's not uncommon to have unpaved state numbered routes. or > unpaved residential areas. > > i turned to the wiki, but i find i need some interpretive help. the > third sentence at: > http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/United_States_roads_tagging#Other_Roads > is unparseable. but even if i assume that the first three words > should be dropped, i'm left with: > "Unpaved roads, dirt track roads, forest development roads, > jeep trails, and roads not passable by all vehicles merit > highway=track instead." > which seems like far too big a bucket for the roads i'm thinking > of. in my mind there's a big difference between "unpaved" and "track". Could you provide a photo of one of these roads? > and finally, if i _did_ want to use "highway=track", shouldn't > potlatch give that option in the dropdown menu? Potlach and Josm don't have comprehensive presets of all tags you might want to use. Cheers, Adam _______________________________________________ Talk-us mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us
