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<div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Mar 15, 2023, 10:21 by dieterdreist@gmail.com:<br></div><blockquote class="tutanota_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid #93A3B8; padding-left: 10px; margin-left: 5px;"><div dir="ltr"><div>I'd prefer "surface:material" compared to "material", it is in modest use (800) <a href="https://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/keys/surface%3Amaterial" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/keys/surface%3Amaterial</a><br></div><div>because the "highway" represents not just the surface.<br></div></div></blockquote><div dir="auto">material represents primary material of object and surface of road/path/square<br></div><div dir="auto">seems to fit here well.<br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">What would be benefit for surface:material over material anyway?<br></div><div dir="auto">Which other tags would be added that are infeasible with material?<br></div><div dir="auto">If someone really wants they can add surface:curb:left=granite <br></div><div dir="auto">and surface:cycleway:left:curb:right=concrete anyway to<br></div><div dir="auto">highway=residential material=granite </div><div dir="auto">(not advocating or advising mapping curb material here).<br></div><blockquote class="tutanota_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid #93A3B8; padding-left: 10px; margin-left: 5px;"><div dir="ltr"><div><br></div><div>Generally, maybe another subtagging step like "surface:material=stone" "stone=granite" could make sense? It could also be used for material and similar tags:<br></div><div>material=stone and stone=granite<br></div></div></blockquote><div dir="auto">not really planning to invent such tagging, I just want to solve problem<br></div><div dir="auto">of material tags squatting surface key without loss of what someone mapped.<br></div><div dir="auto">But I do not plan to spend time on inventing elaborate tagging schemes<br></div><div dir="auto">for something that I am not mapping, not using and not planning either.<br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Especially as entire use of surface:material and stone=* is much smaller<br></div><div dir="auto">than what will[1] be retagged by even this tiny bot edit.<br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">[1]Unless people will protest against it and there will be no consensus to run it.</div> </body>
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