[Tagging] implied surface values?

ael witwall3 at disroot.org
Thu Feb 13 11:00:22 UTC 2020


On Wed, Feb 12, 2020 at 10:38:14PM +0000, Philip Barnes wrote:
> 
> Asphalt is certainly not an unnecessary tag in the UK. 
> 
> Whilst its safe to assume all roads are paved unless tagged otherwise. A small number of lesser roads may not be paved.
> 
> The same assumptions cannot be made about asphalt, a significant part of the motorway and trunk expressway network are concrete, which is  evil noisy stuff and suffers from poor drainage. 

Well, yes, I thought that someone might say that. But such cases are
very much the minority (except perhaps for motorways), which is why
asphalt is still a reasonable default. I would expect an explicit
tag for anything which is not asphalt. Again we are talking about the 
UK here.

ael




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