<div dir="ltr"><div><div><div><div>I have to confess that my use is based on the OSM wiki:<br><a href="http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:surface">http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:surface</a> and<br></div>I did not check the mother tongue of the authors :-)<br><br></div>There are highway surfaces where pebbles are set (I suppose by hand) into some material that holds them in position (typically in historic city centres) and I have encountered tracks where loose pebbles are used to stabilise the surface.<br></div>I don't care too much what they are called, but they need different tag values. <br><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 10 May 2015 at 14:31, Andy Mabbett <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:andy@pigsonthewing.org.uk" target="_blank">andy@pigsonthewing.org.uk</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><span class="">On 10 May 2015 at 12:03, Mateusz Konieczny <<a href="mailto:matkoniecz@gmail.com">matkoniecz@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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> Is there any good reason to avoid changing existing surface=pebbles to<br>
> surface=pebblestone?<br>
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</span>I'm a native speaker of British English, and I've; never heard of<br>
"pebblestones".<br>
<br>
+1 for pebbles.<br>
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Google suggests useage of the latter outweighs the former by almost 100 times:<br>
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<a href="http://www.googlefight.com/index.php?word1=pebblestones&word2=pebbles" target="_blank">http://www.googlefight.com/index.php?word1=pebblestones&word2=pebbles</a><br>
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Andy Mabbett<br>
@pigsonthewing<br>
<a href="http://pigsonthewing.org.uk" target="_blank">http://pigsonthewing.org.uk</a><br>
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