[OSM-talk] highway=unsurfaced

[john at jfeldredge.com]

American usage would be to refer to that as a road, just not a very high-quality road.  I take it that, in Britain, there are certain minimum standards for being called a road?

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Subject :Re: [OSM-talk] highway=unsurfaced
From  :mailto:richard at systemed.net
Date  :Mon Jan 10 12:52:47 America/Chicago 2011



Alex Mauer wrote:
> Sounds like the usage is wrong “round there” then.  The example image on 
> the wiki[1] clearly shows a road
> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/File:Fr%C3%BChlingslandschft_Aaretal_Schweiz.jpg

I think if you described that as a "road" in the UK you'd have the Trades
Descriptions people onto you pretty sharpish. Maybe this explains why our
newspapers get so over-excited when satnavs direct us down bumpy,
inhospitable things and claim they're "roads". That would be described only
as a "track" here.

But it doesn't matter. There is simply no need to fiddle in this way. The
situation is just as it was last time Gorm tried to enforce his own idea of
tag tidiness
(http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk/2010-November/054639.html);
again, this change achieves nothing and is at risk of breaking plenty,
including every mkgmap .img based on its default styles.

A cursory glance suggests Britain appears to have more highway=unsurfaced
than other places, and even then there aren't that many. I will happily fix
200 of them _properly_ (i.e. with what the track actually is, not the
cop-out of highway=road) if someone creates a rendering to highlight where
they are. 

cheers
Richard

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