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

Dave Swarthout daveswarthout at gmail.com
Sat Jan 4 01:26:53 UTC 2014


Now that is a bad road, even though it's paved. Before reading anything in
this thread I would have applied the tags surface=asphalt,
surface_condition=rough_less_than_40 kph (used 1232 times).

Now, I'm not sure what I'd do ;-)


On Sat, Jan 4, 2014 at 8:19 AM, malenki <osm_ at malenki.ch> wrote:

> Fernando Trebien wrote on Fri, 3 Jan 2014 17:56:15 -0200:
>
> >- people don't seem to agree on which tag to recommend overall to
> >  describe surface conditions: tracktype, or smoothness, or simply
> >  surface
>
> OSMers seem to agree that they need all of them.
>
> * Tracktype at least for more or less unimportant tracks,
> * Surface for the material of surface of the road
> * Smoothness at least for ways whose smoothness doesn't match the
>   smoothness one would expect when looking at the surface=value
>
> How else would you describe an asphalted road like this?:
> http://geoawesomeness.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/lidar1.jpg
> (from
> http://geoawesomeness.com/application-of-mobile-lidar-on-pothole-detection/
> )
>
>
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