[Tagging] Tags useful for rendering of roads in poor conditions

[Janko Mihelić]

2014/1/3 Dave Swarthout <daveswarthout at gmail.com>

>
> That said, I agree that too much fussiness in assigning surface conditions
> is overall probably less helpful than just knowing if a road is paved or
> unpaved. I have driven on classified highways here in Thailand that are
> tracks in all but name. They're paved but so broken up and pot holed that
> I've used a tag we haven't discussed in this thread yet, surface_condition,
> to describe them, e.g., surface_condition=Rough less than 40 kph, and
> similar. Will these ever get rendered in a meaningful way? Maybe someday,
> but I'm not holding my breath.
>

We have a tag for this, it's smoothness:
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:smoothness

I am for a combination of surface and surface tags. Those two can describe
almost every condition we have.

I have a feeling that tracktype is only used because it's momentarily
easier to tag and render, but in the long run it's going to give us less
precise maps. What we should do is make tagging and rendering surface and
smoothness easier.

Janko
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