<div dir="ltr">In Europe I think.<div>In other countries of other continents there's no pavement on all the main highways.</div><div><br></div><div>OSM is "universal" so the scheme should not have values by default asking only one part of the World</div><div><br></div><div>Salut i mapes (Health and Maps)</div><div>yopaseopor</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sat, Sep 21, 2019 at 1:53 PM Joseph Eisenberg <<a href="mailto:joseph.eisenberg@gmail.com">joseph.eisenberg@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div><div dir="auto">I believe all highway= values are assumed to be paved by default (in most places) except for highway=track. But it’s best to always add a tag, even for paved roads, if you know.</div></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">(In some rural and wilderness areas it’s likely that most minor roads, footways and paths are unpaved, but explicit tags are still needed. I always try to add at least surface=paved or =unpaved when mapping from aerial imagery here in Indonesia)</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Joseph</div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sat, Sep 21, 2019 at 6:43 PM Jez Nicholson <<a href="mailto:jez.nicholson@gmail.com" target="_blank">jez.nicholson@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto">Do you mean the default values in a particular piece of software, e.g. iD?</div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sat, 21 Sep 2019, 11:06 Volker Schmidt, <<a href="mailto:voschix@gmail.com" target="_blank">voschix@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>I am trying to figure out where the surface default values by road category and country are defined. <br></div><div>Anyone who knows more about the subject?</div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div><div id="gmail-m_620798944707518482m_-5640715623807028892m_123805171941743012DAB4FAD8-2DD7-40BB-A1B8-4E2AA1F9FDF2"><br>
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