[Tagging] Whispering asphalt

[Florian Lohoff]

On Thu, May 02, 2019 at 07:55:40PM +0000, amilopowers at u-cloud.ch wrote:
> Hello
> 
> I used to live in Fribourg, Switzerland where they put "whispering
> asphalt" on one of the main roads in order to prevent noise. You can
> barely hear an EV now, but that is another story.
> 
> Since we have quite a lot of discussions about noise pollution I
> thought it might be a good idea to implement a tag for that.
> 
> surface=whispering_asphalt or surface=silent_asphalt came to my mind
> but I don't know what the official term for that aspahlt in English
> is. In German we call it "Flüsterbelag" or "Flüsterasphalt".
> 
> Then I found on Overpass-Turbo someone that tagged
> "asphalt:type=porous". [1] Since I don't work in that area I don't
> know for sure if this is the same thing as I imagine and I found only
> one Wikipedia article in German [2] about that asphalt I mean.
> 
> I personally prefer one of my first ideas, since I hate to add another
> key/value if I can say it in one.
> 
> I look forward to hear your thoughts and comments.

The point is that when you invent a new value for surface a lot of
consumers will assume it to be some kind of bad/worse surface and
reduce the average speed to expect.

I'd rather propose surface=asphalt asphalt=whisper or the like.

asphalt:type would also be okay with me. There are more likely 100s of types
of asphalt.

Flo
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Florian Lohoff                                                 f at zz.de
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