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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 12/31/13 5:54 PM, Fernando Trebien
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Dec 31, 2013 at 7:27 PM,
malenki <span dir="ltr"><<a moz-do-not-send="true"
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I wouldn't connect surface=compacted and tracktype=grade1
per default<br>
since compacted roads and and roads with really paved
surface (asphalt<br>
or cobblestones) are not unlikely to show a very different
driving<br>
experience after some good rain.<br>
Of course this also depends on your definition of
"compacted". :)<br>
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<div class="gmail_extra">This is an important point where it
gets tricky to reach "global" agreement. <br>
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properly, we should be talking about a consistent tagging scheme
that<br>
accurately describes the road surface. the rendering isn't the
business of<br>
the tagging group. we just need to produce tagging that is clear,<br>
consistent, and reasonably complete. it seems to me that a simple
edit<br>
to the wiki extending tracktype=grade? across road classifications<br>
other than track accomplishes most of what we want here, along with<br>
encouraging use of the surface tag in an appropriate manner.<br>
attempting to somehow relate surface= to specific tracktypes seems<br>
like a bad deal to me; i've seen gravel roads that were grade1, and<br>
gravel roads that were way, way worse than grade1.<br>
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there are reasons why there may need to be custom rendering
stylesheets<br>
for different parts of the world. it may be as simple as local
taste, but there<br>
can be other issues - the new highway shield rendering for the US is
really<br>
nice, but may not make it into the main Carto style sheet, so
there's a<br>
chance the highway shields will get rolled out in an
openstreetmap.us style.<br>
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richard<br>
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