[Talk-us] Gravel roads and surface tags in the US

[Paul Johnson]

On Thu, Apr 19, 2018 at 5:12 PM, Dave Swarthout <daveswarthout at gmail.com>
wrote:

> "I'm totally open to suggestions for alternatives.  Gravel certainly
> doesn't describe that kind of coarse crushed rock to most people, but what
> do you call that concisely?"
>
> The roadway in the OP's opening post has what I would definitely tag as a
> gravel surface but it has obviously been groomed to carry heavier traffic
> than many similar roads. Thus surface=gravel or surface=unpaved along with
> tracktype=grade1 (wiki: grade1 = Usually a paved or heavily compacted
> hardcore surface). Whether such roads have actually been mechanically
> compacted isn't obvious from their appearance. Perhaps some sort of
> final step was employed to prepare them for use.
>

I'm not sure you're on the same page.  I agree with Dave's assessment that
the road he posted was surface=gravel and the cycleway he posted was
surface=compacted (albeit in poor shape for a compacted surface).
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