[Talk-us] Fixing TIGER

[Apollinaris Schoell]

>
> you're referring to this?
>    http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/grade1-5

yes

>
> the last time i raised this i was told that "surface=" was the way
> it should be done.  in the cases i'm thinking of, tracktype doesn't
> seem appropriate -- i'm thinking of numbered routes whose surface  
> isn't
> paved -- i.e., public roadways.  like route 58 in vermont:
>

agreed, a public roadway is not a track. surface is the best we have.

>    http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&q=Hazen+Notch+Rd,+Lowell,+Vermont+05847&sll=44.276917,-72.418957&sspn=0.078168,0.128918&ie=UTF8&cd=1&geocode=FVf0qwIdWuOt-w&split=0&ll=44.823612,-72.490883&spn=0.019359,0.032229&z=15&iwloc=A&layer=c&cbll=44.823619,-72.491039&panoid=s_6TgG1fewPjFSxdBFTA_A&cbp=12,267.24,,0,5
>
> [ aside:  google streetview astonishes me sometimes. ]

they test their cameras under rough conditions ;-) but still their map  
doesn't render different either.