Well, one use case would be for property shoppers to find an area with the quieter asphalt. But yes, all this is a bit far fetched.
On the other hand, I do not want to restrict people from mapping whatever interesting information they know, as long as that information is in standardized-ish format that is easy to consume, and does not break existing consumers On Thu, May 2, 2019 at 5:53 PM Paul Allen <pla16...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Thu, 2 May 2019 at 22:43, Tobias Wrede <l...@tobias-wrede.de> wrote: > >> I would question to use any qualification at all. Whatever is now called >> a quiet/whispering/noise reducing asphalt will have become a standard in >> a couple of years and then a new type even more noise reducing will have >> been invented. Will we then have >> noise_reducing_surface=no|little|yes|yes_yes|definitely_yes? >> > > If we need this tag (I have my doubts) then the only sane way of handling > that would be > something like noise_reduction_db=* where the figure is relative to a > "normal" surface > (e.g., smooth concrete) measured at some specified distance. I'll leave > it to the > specialists to come up with those conditions. > > I really doubt we need it. People are unlikely to choose a minimum-noise > route even if > their satnav offered the option, not if it means the journey is longer or > slower. People > living nearby who are actually affected by road noise will know whether > they have a loud > road or a quiet one without our help. We won't be able to tell if the tag > applies from > satellite imagery. It will be hard to verify unless a community proudly > puts up signs > announcing they've spent money on such a surface. OTOH, people tag things > like > this just because they can, so we'll probably have to come up with > something sane here > before people make tags up at random. > > -- > Paul > > _______________________________________________ > Tagging mailing list > Tagging@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging >
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