[talk-au] Many Sydney residential roads have incorrect surface of paved

[Mat Attlee]

Thank you everyone for the clarification, I have to admit I mixed up
"paved" with "paving_stones" and didn't realise that StreetComplete will
ask people to survey the former and pick a more specific surface type.

On Wed, 6 Jan 2021 at 22:32, <talk-au-request at openstreetmap.org> wrote:

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> From: Andrew Harvey <andrew.harvey4 at gmail.com>
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> Subject: Re: [talk-au] Many Sydney residential roads have incorrect
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> Yes exactly as Mateusz said, asphalt is a subtype of paved, if the surface
> is asphalt and there is no surface tag yet, then it's correct to map it as
> surface=paved (if you know it's paved but can't tell specifically which
> type of paved surface it is), then someone else can come along and improve
> it to surface=asphalt/concrete etc. It would be wrong to change
> surface=asphalt back to surface=paved unless it was surveyed and there is a
> question about exactly which type of paved surface it is.
>
> The StreetComplete surveyor app will ask you to survey surface=paved into a
> more specific surface type.
>
> You should absolutely not go ahead and do a mass/automated revert without
> discussion though, for exactly the same reasons why a large mass/automated
> edit should be discussed initially too (much more can go wrong on a larger
> scale if you make a mistake, and maybe it was discussed but you're just not
> aware of where the discussion was. So if you have concerns then please
> raise them here.
>
> You're probably talking about the Microsoft Open Maps team edits which
> added a bulk of the surface=paved tags (though certainly not all), I
> understand these edits were made manually but with using AI as an indicator
> to flag potential surface tag additions.
>
> Lastly you can't use Google Street View as a source for mapping as
> explained why at
>
> https://help.openstreetmap.org/questions/710/can-i-use-google-streetview-to-help-create-maps
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