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

[Rihards]

On 2018.04.20. 01:12, Dave Swarthout 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.

It might be worth avoiding paved/unpaved. Usually, if you are tagging
surface, you can make at least a good guess on what is it. While
paved/unpaved provides some information, it is still highly desirable to
expand on it later (gravel, compacted, sand, ground etc ? - big difference).

> On Thu, Apr 19, 2018 at 2:48 PM, Paul Johnson <baloo at ursamundi.org
> <mailto:baloo at ursamundi.org>> wrote:...
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 Rihards