[Tagging] Ambiguous surface=wood

[Dan S]

I'd say it's very rare that "wood" could be interpreted as possibly
meaning "woodchip". Woodchip has very different material properties,
and different affordances for travellers. A little bit like saying
"wood" might mean "sawdust" ;)

surface=woodchip is used more often than surface=woodchips, though
neither of them is used very much at the moment:
taginfo.openstreetmap.org/compare/surface=woodchip/surface=woodchips

I would advocate "surface=woodchip" (singular), and preserve the
existing meaning of surface=wood as planks.

Maybe we should document "surface=woodchip"?

Just my 2p
Dan


2014-08-22 6:53 GMT+01:00 Mateusz Konieczny <matkoniecz at gmail.com>:
> I discovered* that surface=wood is ambiguous and may mean two very different
> things:
> 1) paths with wood chips
> 2) paths paved with wooden planks (for example
> https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plik:Bernatek_foot-bridge_%28Love_padlocks%29,_Krakow,_Poland.jpg
> )
>
> I want to tag in way that would be clear, now I consider using for the
> second
> situation [surface=wood; wood=planks] or [surface=planks] and
> [surface=wood; wood=chips] or [surface=woodchips] for the first one.
>
> Currently wiki mentions only situation (2).
>
> *http://forum.openstreetmap.org/viewtopic.php?pid=444548#p444548
>
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