[talk-au] surface=unsealed in 4wd/dirt road tagging

[David Bannon]

Ian, at the time, someone, I am not sure who, preferred 'unsealed'
arguing that unpaved did not mean the same thing. Roads can be sealed in
ways that do not really mean paved.

Personally, I did not care, being more interested in getting it
documented so we all used the same tag. However, now, looking at the
numbers, I have to say that 'unpaved' would be seriously preferable !

So, my vote, change it.

David


On Sat, 2013-06-29 at 11:18 +1000, Ian Sergeant wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I know we had some discussion over 4wd/dirt road tagging.
> 
> This ended up in the wiki as a recommendation to use
> 
> surface=unsealed
> 
> http://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/tags/surface=unsealed
> 
> 
> I really can't see a significant reason here not to stick with
> 
> surface=unpaved
> 
> http://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/tags/surface=unpaved
> 
> 
> When it is so much more likely to used, and therefore so much more
> likely to be rendered, navigated, etc.  There are the other surface=*
> tags that can be used if more specific information is available, but
> surface=unsealed is obscure to no benefit IMO.
> 
> 
> 
> If there are no objections, I'll update the wiki.
> 
> 
> Thanks,
> Ian.
> 
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