This convention of using a dotted line to indicate an unsurfaced road is also standard practice in the USA.
-------Original Email------- Subject :Re: [OSM-talk] surface=unpaved >From :mailto:[email protected] Date :Tue Jan 11 10:40:49 America/Chicago 2011 On 11 January 2011 23:51, Richard Mann <[email protected]> wrote: > Is it public access, or is it owned privately? I ask because there is > a strong correlation between public roads and decent maintenance where > I come from. And as it happens, Mapnik does show access=private. > > (the general problem with rendering surface is that there's a lot of > values and you will find it very hard to render without always having > to look for a key to tell you what the colour/shading means). Which is > not to say that knowing which roads are cobbled wouldn't be handy > sometimes (but I probably think of this as something you need to > render for yourself (cue ad for Maperitive...)) There is a lot of public unsurfaced roads in Australia, some are graveled, some are black soil and you don't both using them in the wet without a 4wd etc. These usually show on maps as dashed lines, rather than solid lines, rather than messing with the colour. _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk -- John F. Eldredge -- [email protected] "Reserve your right to think, for even to think wrongly is better than not to think at all." -- Hypatia of Alexandria _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
