[OSM-talk] surface=unpaved

[john at jfeldredge.com]

This convention of using a dotted line to indicate an unsurfaced road is also standard practice in the USA.

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Subject :Re: [OSM-talk] surface=unpaved
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Date  :Tue Jan 11 10:40:49 America/Chicago 2011


On 11 January 2011 23:51, Richard Mann
<richard.mann.westoxford at gmail.com> wrote:
> Is it public access, or is it owned privately? I ask because there is
> a strong correlation between public roads and decent maintenance where
> I come from. And as it happens, Mapnik does show access=private.
>
> (the general problem with rendering surface is that there's a lot of
> values and you will find it very hard to render without always having
> to look for a key to tell you what the colour/shading means). Which is
> not to say that knowing which roads are cobbled wouldn't be handy
> sometimes (but I probably think of this as something you need to
> render for yourself (cue ad for Maperitive...))

There is a lot of public unsurfaced roads in Australia, some are
graveled, some are black soil and you don't both using them in the wet
without a 4wd etc.

These usually show on maps as dashed lines, rather than solid lines,
rather than messing with the colour.

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