[Talk-us] US highway classification

[John F. Eldredge]

Nathan Edgars II <neroute2 at gmail.com> wrote:

>There are many types of roads that it's not possible to describe. How
>do 
>you tag an unpaved classified road so the map shows that it's unpaved 
>(this is very common in the third world, but also occurs in extremely 
>rural areas of the US)? You don't.

Use the surface tag.  Using multiple tags to describe a way, instead of simply the highway tag, lets you describe more details.  In turn, renderers should look at more than just the highway tag.

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