[Tagging] Whispering asphalt

[Yuri Astrakhan]

I don't think we should do asphalt classification -- too difficult for many
cases, and very little value, especially in this case because it is not the
"type" of asphalt, it is rather a "feature" of asphalt. Multiple features
could exist in the same asphalt - e.g. it could have noise-canceling
qualities, or it could have under-surface charging, or it could have solar
panels integrated into it, or it could have high melting point so it works
well under sun.

In other words, I think it should be a yes flag, something like
noise_reducing_surface=yes

On Thu, May 2, 2019 at 5:12 PM Florian Lohoff <f at zz.de> wrote:

> 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
> --
> Florian Lohoff                                                 f at zz.de
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