[Tagging] Tagging Digest, Vol 68, Issue 35

[Volker Schmidt]

I only now, after having lived for many years in the UK, I realise that the
definition of gravel is wider than the equivalent of the German Splitt. I
thought them equivalent.

Looking it up in the English Wikipedia I found contradictory information.

In
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravel_road
"gravel" is "crushed stone" and raoughly aequivalent to the German Splitt

But in
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravel
"gravel" is more generic and can, for example,  also be pebbles of
different sizes.



On 11 May 2015 at 15:42, Martin Koppenhoefer <dieterdreist at gmail.com> wrote:

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> Am 10.05.2015 um 15:29 schrieb Lists <lists at gimnechiske.org>:
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> +1 for pebbles.
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> Don’t create a ridiculous amount of surface values, for roads there are
> mainly 3 interesting values (paved/unpaved/setting stones), and for
> non-road usage it should be free to cover about any exposed surfaces, i.e.
> beaches can be sand/pebbles/rock, tennis courts can be
> clay/synthetic/asphalt (and other values?), a soccer field can be
> grass/synthetic/asphalt?
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> glad you mention pebbles: I always wondered what were the right values for
> crushed rock (angular rock) in the size classes 5mm to 32mm/64mm, as both,
> gravel and pebbles seem to refer to naturally created, smooth, small pieces
> of stone (eg from rivers), while most streets I am aware of are made from
> crushed rock (at least around here).
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> For reference, in German the terms are Bruchsand (<5mm), Splitt (2-32mm)
> and Schotter (32-64mm) as opposed to pieces of natural provenience (German:
> Kies). I'm particularly interested in the term(s) for Splitt.
> (I guess it is chippings, but this is not a common value for surfaces in
> Osm (strangely just 5 occurrences)).
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> cheers
> Martin
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