[OSM-talk] [tagging] Feature Proposal - RFC - surface_unification

Per omlists.phobie at safersignup.com
Fri May 1 02:38:04 BST 2009


Proposal page
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/surface_unification

Proposal discussion
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Talk:Proposed_features/surface_unification


Please read the talk-page before commenting on this!


Introduction:

This proposal should improve the current usage of the surface=*-key.
It is needed because surface is currently a mix of fastness and material
types.
The fastness should go to surface:paved=* and the materials should go to
surface:material=*.
With surface:condition=* we are trying to describe the status of the
surface with less subjective values than smoothness=* does.

It should extract the best of
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Key:surface ,
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Proposed_features/surface_values
and
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Proposed_features/more_surface_values
.
If it gets widely used by the community it could later replace things
like
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Proposed_features/Smoothness and
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Proposed_features/grade1-5.

surface:paved=* and surface:material=* can be filled by values currently
used in surface=*.

Also see the already used keys surface_material and surface_state on
tagwatch!


Sincerely
Per





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