[OSM-talk] Highways with surface=unpaved; highway=secondary_link

[Tom Hughes]

In message <5ffb04320709271751t22b4bf24w177095eb4eb9e399 at mail.gmail.com>
        Andrew MacKinnon <andrewpmk at gmail.com> wrote:

> Could someone with svn access add highways tagged surface=unpaved to
> the mapnik and osmarender rules files, so that they render like
> highways tagged highway=unsurfaced (which are rendered in mapnik but
> not osmarender). Surface=unpaved is listed in map features, but
> highway=unsurfaced is not (I presume that it is depreciated). In
> osmarender, I would suggest rendering unpaved highways like
> unclassified but with dashed borders.

Personally I've tended to use highway=unsurfaced or highway=track
as I didn't realise the surface tag was in use.

I can see that having them as separate concepts is useful in some
countries where more roads are unsurfaced though.

> Also, could someone add highway=secondary_link to osmarender? It isn't
> actually in map features, but it is widely used, and mapnik renders
> it. It should be rendered like highway=secondary.

Do you really have secondary roads with grade separated junctions?

Tom

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