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

[Karl Eichwalder]

> Byway (highway=byway) is an unsurfaced track in the countryside with foot,
> horse, bike and car rights - part of the UK rights of way system. They are
> almost never found in towns. Typically waymarked as a right of way, though
> some aren't.

ok, thanks.  I think those ways do not exist in Germany.

> Unsurfaced (highway=unsurfaced; example = Rownhams Court, Southampton near
> the Ordnance Survey building) is a residential road with a rough, non-made
> up surface. They'll normally have a name and houses along them.

Bad, bad, bad, that you went for this shortcut.  Now, highway is a
very bewildered keyword.  We usually tag those ways as residential
plus surface=uppaved.

I hope Mapnik and these other will learn sometime in the the future to
differentiate between paved and unpaved foot and cycle ways.  For Mapnik
I'd liek to propose to frame the dashed red or blue line either with
solid or dashed black lines.