[Talk-us] dirt road classification?

[Ted Percival]

Paul Fox wrote:
> alex wrote:
>  > Paul Fox wrote:
>  > > is there a way to distinguish pavement type separately from
>  > > road classification?  is there a standard tag for doing so?
>  > 
>  > You want the surface key.
>  > 
>  > http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:surface
>  > 
> 
> does the "standard" renderer at o-s-m.org do rendering
> based on the surface?

No, neither Mapnik nor Osmarender draw surface=unpaved differently. I
assume the same goes for the more detailed values (gravel, dirt, ...).

For example, part of East 600 South here is tagged as surface=unpaved,
but it looks the same:
http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=40.35607&lon=-111.7348&zoom=17&layers=B000FTF