[Talk-us] Unpaved streets

[Alex Mauer]

On 09/06/2009 05:56 PM, Paul Johnson wrote:
> 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

I would expect that this applies to at least the majority of named roads...

> most routing engines and all renderers at this point are more likely to
> use the highway tag to determine and render such objects correctly.

“Tagging for the renderer” is generally discouraged.  It's probably a
better idea to tag what's actually on the ground, and put in a trac
ticket if you feel that it should be rendered differently.

-Alex Mauer “hawke”

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