<div dir="ltr"><div><div><div><div><div>I only now, after having lived for many years in the UK, I realise that the definition of gravel is wider than the equivalent of the German Splitt. I thought them equivalent.<br><br></div>Looking it up in the English Wikipedia I found contradictory information.<br></div><br></div>In <br><div style="margin-left:40px"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravel_road">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravel_road</a><br></div>"gravel" is "crushed stone" and raoughly aequivalent to the German Splitt<br><br></div>But in <br><div style="margin-left:40px"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravel">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravel</a><br></div>"gravel" is more generic and can, for example, also be pebbles of different sizes.<br><br></div><div><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 11 May 2015 at 15:42, Martin Koppenhoefer <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dieterdreist@gmail.com" target="_blank">dieterdreist@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto"><span class=""><div><br><br><br></div><div><br>Am 10.05.2015 um 15:29 schrieb Lists <<a href="mailto:lists@gimnechiske.org" target="_blank">lists@gimnechiske.org</a>>:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><blockquote type="cite"><div><span style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;float:none;display:inline!important">+1 for pebbles.</span><div><br style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px"></div></div></blockquote></div><br><div>Don’t create a ridiculous amount of surface values, for roads there are mainly 3 interesting values (paved/unpaved/setting stones), and for non-road usage it should be free to cover about any exposed surfaces, i.e. beaches can be sand/pebbles/rock, tennis courts can be clay/synthetic/asphalt (and other values?), a soccer field can be grass/synthetic/asphalt?</div></blockquote><br><div><br></div></span><div>glad you mention pebbles: I always wondered what were the right values for crushed rock (angular rock) in the size classes 5mm to 32mm/64mm, as both, gravel and pebbles seem to refer to naturally created, smooth, small pieces of stone (eg from rivers), while most streets I am aware of are made from crushed rock (at least around here).</div><div><br></div><div>For reference, in German the terms are Bruchsand (<5mm), Splitt (2-32mm) and Schotter (32-64mm) as opposed to pieces of natural provenience (German: Kies). I'm particularly interested in the term(s) for Splitt.</div><div>(I guess it is chippings, but this is not a common value for surfaces in Osm (strangely just 5 occurrences)).</div><div><br></div><div>cheers </div><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><div>Martin </div></font></span></div><br>_______________________________________________<br>
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