> > my pet goal is missing from that list (it's only sort of a part > of "Wrong road classification"), and that is, missing "surface" > keys, to indicate whether a road is paved or not. this is a key > piece of information for many kinds of navigation (bicycling, > motorcycling, and for many others in the case of foul weather), > and it's completely missing (or mostly incorrect) on all other > free and non-free maps. >
this is not tiger specific. you can use tags like track_type, surface .... or come up with better ones. but agree tiger data is very bad in this regard. nearly all tracks are defined as highway=residential. even the ones which are 4WD roads in the USGS maps. > unfortunately, there's not much incentive to add the information > to OSM, because none of the renderers will display it anyway. :-) > > (i started a thread on this earlier this year, and then dropped > the ball by not continuing to lobby for changes to the renderers > to fix this problem.) use track_type and this is rendered different in osmarender. for me it seems counter intuitive how tracktype and path,sac_scale are rendered but it's a start. it's a chicken-egg situation. if there is no data there is no reason to change the renderer .... > > paul > =--------------------- > paul fox, [email protected] (arlington, ma, where it's 58.1 > degrees) > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-us mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us _______________________________________________ Talk-us mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us
