[Talk-us] US highway classification

Nathan Edgars II neroute2 at gmail.com
Sun May 29 18:22:13 BST 2011


On 5/29/2011 10:31 AM, John F. Eldredge wrote:
> 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.
>
I agree. It was a rhetorical question.



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