[OSM-talk] highway=unsurfaced

[Steve Chilton]

Serious about changing highway=unsurfaced?
In response to Richard's suggestion I have rendered where they occur in England:
http://steve8.dev.openstreetmap.org/unsurfacedENG.png
I am currently rendering a tile set (down to about z10) to help identify exact locations.
These will be uploaded to a server and URL circulated shortly.
Richard has put his actions where his keyboard is and agreed to provide a Potlatch instance linked to it so edits can be done from it.
If this is helpful to folk then the process to can be repeated for Wales and Scotland (I am using geofabrik country files).
NB: I am afraid I cannot render and host tiles for any other parts of the world

Cheers
STEVE


-----Original Message-----
From: talk-bounces at openstreetmap.org [mailto:talk-bounces at openstreetmap.org] On Behalf Of Richard Fairhurst
Sent: 10 January 2011 18:53
To: talk at openstreetmap.org
Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] highway=unsurfaced


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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