Hi, > I've been mapping for about a year now in a tropical country, namely Sri > Lanka. > Problem : a lot of the smaller residential roads are so altered by the > monsoon weather that you can hardly drive on them, there are more holes > and ditches than proper surfaced road ? However most of these roads used > to be surfaced (either with tar or concrete) a few years back. > > How should I tag these? Here are the different options I found : > 1. mark these roads as : highway='residential' AND surface='unpaved', > 2. highway='unsurfaced' > 3. highway='track' and tracktype='grade1' or 'grade2' > > of course, with option 2 and 3 we loose the residential tag , which is > the most interesting property of the road, according to me. > > Has anybody faced these choices elsewhere ? I would be very interested > by your feedback.
IMO the best choice would be to keep the highway=residential tag as it describes the most important property of this piece of the network. Additionally, I'd add a surface tag. If unpaved is not the best option, I'd simply use/invent one for later use. I usually use surface=paved|copperstone| gravel|unpaved|grass|ground. Thoise are neither "official" nor proposed tags. But if you want to add the information to the osm database right now (and obviously you want to :) just use the tags you like. Best regards, ce _______________________________________________ newbies mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/newbies
