[Tagging] Default values for surface by road category and country

[Richard Fairhurst]

Tom Pfeifer wrote:
> In the outskirts of Berlin, I have unpaved highway=residential in good 
> neighbourhoods, that are muddy when wet and dusty when dry. Thus Germany 
> qualifies as developing country?

No, it qualifies as somewhere you should tag unpaved roads with a surface=
tag. Hence the phrase "assumed paved" - if the assumption's wrong, then tag
the surface accordingly. Volker was asking about defaults, not a single
unalterable surface for each highway type!

Richard



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