[OSM-talk] [tagging] Feature Proposal - Voting - 4wd_only

[Peter Körner]

David Lynch schrieb:
> On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 09:45, Morten Kjeldgaard<mok at bioxray.au.dk> wrote:
>> So using the "surface=*" tag is a
>> better approach IMHO  to warn that a road is in a bad shape for ordinary
>> traffic.
> 
> Surface alone doesn't tell you enough. A standard car can handle just
> about any surface except mud, as long as it's relatively smooth and
> flat.
> 
> I drive a 2WD car that is about as far from the ground as my cat, but
> about once a month, I travel along a 3km-long driveway that's a
> mixture of rocky soil, loose gravel/pebbles, and bedrock. There
> unsealed roads in the area with what most people would call a better
> surface that I've had difficulty with when dry and wouldn't dare try
> in the rain.

Then IMO we need better values for surface, so that you're able to put 
this into this tag.

Peter