On Tuesday, 11 February 2020, Volker Schmidt wrote:
> OK, you confirm that the "paved is implied" statement in the wiki page is
> to be read as "assuming we are in Germany ... paved is implied" and is not
> referring to some wiki page that I have not yet detected (that was my
> question).
> I have no problem with the statement that most residential roads in Germany
> are paved, and hence a router can assume that any unpaved residential roads
> in Germany have a corresponding tag.
> 
In the UK too paved is implied, I have never used paved. Surface tags such as 
asphalt, setts, concrete add the detail of what sort of paved.

Phil (trigpoint) 

 
> 
> On Tue, 11 Feb 2020 at 17:14, Philip Barnes <p...@trigpoint.me.uk> wrote:
> 
> >
> >
> > On Tuesday, 11 February 2020, Volker Schmidt wrote:
> > > Do we have any agreed implied surface values for the different street
> > > categories ? per country?
> > >
> > > I noticed this phrase
> > > "in many cases this is implied by the way itself (for highway=trunk to
> > > highway=residential, paved is implied) "
> > > on the page
> > > https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Cycle_routes/cyclability#Tag_ideas:
> > > in the table entry "Surface".
> > >
> > > I thought there was no such agreement.
> > > (I hope to be wrong)
> > >
> > It is a safe bet in Western Europe, but I am not sure about the rest of
> > the world.
> >
> > Phil (trigpoint)
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