[Talk-us] Unpaved streets

[Paul Johnson]

On Thu, 2009-09-03 at 10:13 -0400, Nakor wrote:
>  Hello,
> 
> In my neighborhood there are some unpaved residential streets. How
> should those be tagged?
> 
> highway=track
> 
> highway=residential
> surface=unpaved

I would tend to go with highway=track unless the street in question is a
gravelled over macadam or some other semi-paved surface mostly because
most routing engines and all renderers at this point are more likely to
use the highway tag to determine and render such objects correctly.

> BTW does highway=residential imply surface=paved?

Yes, unless otherwise stated.

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