[Tagging] paved=yes/no

[Tobias Knerr]

On 19.07.2010 13:16, M∡rtin Koppenhoefer wrote:
>>> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:paved
> 
> I did that, because of 2 reasons:
> 1) there is a number of users who think that surface gets more and
> more complicate to evaluate due to the level of detail. They say (and
> it is IMHO true for some usecases) that surface=paved/unpaved is
> sufficient.

It's really trivial to assign the same effect to multiple surface values
in an application. That task can be automated, and it clearly should be.

Where to add that conversion depends on the application - this could be
a part of the application itself, an osmosis task, a library or some
other technical solution.

I don't like the idea of adding this to the database, because I don't
want to keep another tag up to date if it doesn't provide any
information that wasn't there before.

Tobias Knerr