[OSM-newbies] tertiary dirt roads?

[Zeke Farwell]

Sounds to me like the best solution is:

highway=tertiary
surface=dirt   (or gravel or whatever)

unfortunately, the current renderers don't do anything with the surface tag.
 Hopefully in the future they will though.  In my opinion, the relative
importance of a road should factor more heavily into the choice of highway
tag that the physical characteristics of the road.

Zeke
Burlington, VT


On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 11:55 AM, Richard Weait <richard at weait.com> wrote:

> On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 11:26 AM, Alex Mauer <hawke at hawkesnest.net> wrote:
> > On 11/21/2009 12:11 AM, James Ewen wrote:
> >> I guess you missed the rest of my post where I described these
> >> roads. [ ... ]
>
> > Is there something wrong with using highway=unclassified for these?
>
> For the purposes of the newbies list, it is worth mentioning that
> highway classifications are a match for legal highway classification
> in England.  Elsewhere, the 'right' classification will be a best-fit
> to the standard tags based on local conditions and traditions.
>
> While it may be true that "you can tag anything in any way that you
> please" it is expected by the rest of the community that you will tag
> highways (and everything else) in a way that is acceptable to the rest
> of the community.  New mappers should consider and emulate the
> practices adopted by other local mappers.
>
> Charlotte's original question about marking western, major, unpaved
> roads as tertiary seems reasonable given that description.  With a
> planet as diverse and project as large as ours, it would be madness to
> expect precisely uniform tagging from place to place.  We'll have to
> rely on our experienced local experts to do the right thing.
>
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