On Thu, Apr 19, 2018 at 1:10 PM Rihards <[email protected]> wrote: > While possibly correct for western Europe, more eastwards that is not > correct. A lot of compacted roads. By distance, probably more than paved. > Pure gravel usually is reserved for smaller segments where very low > travel speed is expected - like service roads for new residential > development, driveways etc. > Yeah, I grew up in Germany, and while we have almost no unpaved highway=unclassified and above, there is a dense network of agricultural and forestry tracks that would fall under the current surface=compacted definition. These generally have access restricted to non-motorized traffic and forestry/agricultural use. Stuff like this: https://photos.app.goo.gl/ZAojzG2aPvD01BGF2 Funnily enough, the way in that picture is also tagged as surface=gravel. https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/40755302
So I guess we North Americans aren't the only ones confused about this. Harald.
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