[Tagging] surface earth vs ground vs dirt

[Chris Hill]

On 12/04/16 16:43, Viking wrote:
>
> Hello.
>
> What’s about bringing surface=ground, surface=dirt and surface=earth 
> to the unique and most used tag surface=ground, as discussed here [1]?
>
> Too few distinctions, too much confusion. And it has been already 
> discussed in this mailing list [2].
>
> So, should we start a votation, or is there a general consent already 
> to unify these tags?
>
> Alberto
>
> [1] https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Talk:Key:surface#Ground_vs_earth
>
> [2] 
> https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/tagging/2014-March/016811.html
>
>
I would be completely against merging these different values into one. 
You see similar things that need to be combined, I see different tags 
that convey that difference. Anyone consuming these data can combine 
them if they want to or use the differences to show up what the mapper 
intended. If they get merged the consumer has no choice.

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Cheers, Chris (chillly)