Hi Today there is >5500 ways with highway=unsurfaced (Taginfo<http://taginfo.openstreetmap.de/tags/highway=unsurfaced>). They seem to be evenly spread over the planet and was depreciated<http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Deprecated_features>almost three years ago.
I would like to replace them with something better. I was thinking highway=road + surface=unpaved. Do you agree that we should replace highway=unsurfaced? If not, please write a few words why you don't think we should. Is there a better alternative than highway=road? I have seen 'uncurfaced' described as unclassified and track, but they both somewhat indicate more detail tan just 'road' does. Is there a better alternative than surface=unpaved? Maybe we could use surfaced=unsurfaced to, for what its worth, conserve the old highway value? What should be done if there is a surface tag already? Overwrite? Or move to surface_old (or something)? I would use XAPI and JOSM on about a continent at a time. Perhaps a bot is better, but haven't looked into how that is done. If anyone else willing to do it has a better tool to execute the edit, speak up. best regards -gormur
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