[Tagging] New key proposal - paved=yes/no

[Martin Koppenhoefer]

2014-09-22 0:42 GMT+02:00 Paul Johnson <baloo at ursamundi.org>:

> On Sun, Sep 21, 2014 at 4:06 AM, Volker Schmidt <voschix at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> For bicycle routing the paved information is not very useful.
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>
> I strongly dispute this.  In the US, where practical bicycles are the
> exception, not the rule, surface information is exceptionally important.



Volker did not write that "surface" information did not matter, he said
that "paved" doesn't hit it. For example a road paved with cobblestones (or
even worse an antique roman road) are very hard to use in bicycle (mostly)
and you'd generally want to avoid it, still it would be "paved".

cheers,
Martin
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