<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br><div><div>On Sep 20, 2014, at 4:00 PM, Paul Johnson wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Sep 20, 2014 at 4:59 PM, Richard Welty <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:rwelty@averillpark.net" target="_blank">rwelty@averillpark.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<div>On 09/20/2014 05:42 PM, Tomasz
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I would like to suggest making
the <span style="font-weight:600">paved</span> key for highways
(and probably other types of elements) official. Taginfo for <span style="font-weight:600">paved</span>:<br><p style="margin-top:12px;margin-bottom:12px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;text-indent:0px"><a href="http://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/keys/paved#values" target="_blank"><span style="text-decoration:underline;color:#0057ae">http://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/keys/paved#values</span></a></p><p style="margin-top:12px;margin-bottom:12px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;text-indent:0px">The above shows that the key is already being
used, but the Wiki doesn't describe this key, instead
redirecting Key:paved to the article about Key:surface.</p>
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duplicative<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"></font></span></div><div text="#000000" bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><br></div></blockquote><div> </div><div>Seconded </div></div></div></div></blockquote><br></div><div>It might be considered duplicative, but what should a data consumer do if confronted with a surface=* value that is unknown to it (and the wiki)? We aren't talking human intelligence here where an informed guess is possible. Should such a way be considered paved or unpaved for purposes of routing? From that point of view, Richard's proposal gives a lot of clarity.</div><br></body></html>