[OSM-talk] "Unsurfaced road" and "Byway"?

[Mike Collinson]

At 08:04 AM 16/12/2007, Karl Eichwalder wrote:
>The Mapnik "Map key" pane now features "Unsurfaced road" and "Byway"
>as highways.  Where can I find descriptions of them?

An unsurfaced road should simply be a road with the surface tag set:

highway=secondary
surface=unpaved

That's not to say some non-Map Features tags are being supported. If so, I've never heard of either of them and suggest not using them. "Byway" is probably for UK as it has a specific legal meaning there.

Mike
Stockholm