[Talk-ca] Tagging road surface

[Sam Vekemans]

oops, Forgot to cc: talk-ca list,

On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 9:35 PM, Sam Vekemans
<acrosscanadatrails at gmail.com>wrote:

> Hi,
> (i thought someone else would tackle your question, so i didnt reply)
> but i will now. :-)
>
> yes, please read the tag 'smothness' to get a background on the topic :)
>
> 1st -roads need to be tagged acording to physical signs, to get the
> 'RoadClass ' right. Ie. If its a secondary or tertiary or primary
> road. The pictures on the wiki help, along with looking around your
> area to see how others mapped similar roads.
>
> Adding the 'surface' tag does help in discribing what the surface is
> physically made of.
>
> OpenStreetMap is designed as a multi-purpose map, where maps can be
> made for cars or bicycle or walking. OSM handles the 3 types by
> looking at the tags for each way.
>
> If the road has "foot=yes" thats a different experience as a bike to a car.
> A car with higher pressure tires to lower pressure tires would produce
> a different shalk ratio, and if the car had better shalks than a ford
> model "A" the experience.
>
> In conclusion, add what ever u like, just ask (message user) before u
> remove tags that someone else put there :)
> cheers,
> Sam
>
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