[OSM-talk] Rendering of tracktype

[Rodrigo Moya]

On Wed, 2008-06-11 at 23:24 +0200, Rainer Dorsch wrote:
> Am Mittwoch, 11. Juni 2008 schrieb Richard Fairhurst:
> > Frank Sautter wrote:
> > > i agree with you!
> > > my idea of how this should be rendered is:
> > > grade1: just like highway=service
> > > [...]
> >
> > It's worth noting that tracktype is not a universally welcome tag - a
> > lot of people think having an arbitrary scale isn't very "OSM-like",
> > and that it's better to tag specific characteristics. We don't
> > necessarily have anything better, of course.
> >
> 
> I agree. In particular it does not reflect the diameter of the stones on the 
> track. Having a track with large "rocks" (as it happens often in the Alps) or 
> very small stones certainly makes a difference when you ride with your 
> bike....Nevertheless the tracktype information is much more useful than just 
> knowing it is a track.
> 
I guess we could have a surface=big_stones or something like that :)
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Rodrigo Moya <rodrigo at gnome-db.org>