[Tagging] cobblestone, sett and surface=*

[Christopher Hoess]

FWIW, in my area (northeastern US), "sett" is referred to as "Belgian
block", but most people would indiscriminately refer to both surfaces as
"cobblestone".

-- 
Chris Hoess


On Sat, Aug 23, 2014 at 2:57 AM, Mateusz Konieczny <matkoniecz at gmail.com>
wrote:

> How one should tag surfaces:
> - paved with equally sized, flat stones (
> https://www.google.pl/maps/@50.061304,19.938305,3a,30y,270.75h,72.93t/data=!3m5!1e1!3m3!1sBcAaihLoEYmtOQbTnOlxWA!2e0!3e5?hl=pl
> )
> - paved with roughly shaped stones, only partially flattened (
> https://www.google.pl/maps/@50.059029,19.940113,3a,30y,276.76h,68.16t/data=!3m4!1e1!3m2!1sJiyUyJYQx9Fqv_dC1-18_A!2e0?hl=pl
> )
>
> I tag in the first situation as surface=sett and in the second as
> surface=cobblestone.
>
> Bur according to https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:surface both
> should be
> tagged as surface=cobblestone. cobblestone:flattened is mentioned
> (without any description).
>
> To further complicate situation it seems that both surfaces should be
> described
> as sett - see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sett_%28paving%29
>
> Meanwhile, on taginfo -
> https://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/keys/surface#values :
> - cobblestone 119 216
> - sett 6 261
> - cobblestone:flattened 2 176
>
> Cobblestones, sett mistaken for cobblestone and flat sett are clearly
> different
> and I hope for way to differentiate between these, better than using
> smoothness.
>
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