+1 from me too. I would go even further and explicitly encourage local, on ground tagging to use the more detailed tags such as gravel or asphalt over paved/unpaved. I have been updating these tags locally using Street complete as I consider it better data.
The rewording gives me confidence that this is not reverted. Great Initiative. Cheers, Seb On 1 February 2021 12:26:00 pm AEDT, Andrew Harvey <andrew.harv...@gmail.com> wrote: >On Sun, 31 Jan 2021 at 15:16, Little Maps <mapslit...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Hi folks, wondering if I can promote some discussion about the >section of >> the Aus tagging guidelines on adding surface tags on roads. The text >> currently reads, >> >> “For most types of highway=* tags you don't need to specify the >> surface=paved key/value pair as this is assumed, however make sure >you tag >> the road surface when it isn't a paved road.” >> >> This assumption is fine in large cities but is problematic in rural >and >> regional Australia. Can I suggest that it is replaced by something >like the >> following... >> >> "Surface tags should be added to roads wherever possible, especially >in >> regional areas. This advice differs from that on the international >> key:surface wiki page, which states that, 'there is normally an >assumption >> that the surface is surface=paved unless otherwise stated.' However >this >> assumption is not valid across regional Australia as: (1) most roads, >> including many major roads, are unpaved, and (2) mapping intensity >varies >> greatly among regions. Many roads that do not have a surface tag may >not >> have been examined by mappers. Adding a surface tag will assist data >users >> and help mappers to further refine the regional road network." >> > >+1 from me. I believe there has been a shift in community sentiment >regarding this, the current wording reflects sentiment from a few years >back where you'd generally only map surface=unpaved and assume >everything >else is paved. However especially with the Microsoft mappers adding >many >surface=paved tags and with StreetComplete surface quest asking for >surface >type for all roads, this has led to it being much more common for an >explicit surface tag to be acceptable. It's fitting to update the wiki >to >say that it's now commonplace to always add a surface tag even when >it's >paved to provide more complete data and higher confidence in the data.
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