" I'm kind of thinking that the gravel surface in the wiki would be better redone as surface=ballast. "
-1 I hope you won't push for this. In my experience, the only association the word "ballast" has with any sort of roadway is with railroads. And, as I said before, the idea of actual railroad ballast being used as the surface of a road is totally foreign to me. Although such roads may exist somewhere, in my travels I have NEVER seen a rural unpaved road with anything even resembling railroad ballast for a surface. On Thu, Apr 19, 2018 at 1:54 PM, Paul Johnson <ba...@ursamundi.org> wrote: > > > On Wed, Apr 18, 2018, 21:51 Harald Kliems <kli...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> I think compacted is definitely the best way to tag, but I agree with >> Toby's point that common terms conflicting with OSM terminology is going to >> lead to lots of errors. Looking at my own edits, I have mistakenly used >> surface=gravel quite frequently. Not really sure what to do -- a "did you >> really mean to tag 'surface=gravel'?" error message/tooltip in the editor? >> I think actual gravel in the sense of the wiki is quite rare. >> > > I'm kind of thinking that the gravel surface in the wiki would be better > redone as surface=ballast. > > The only things that grain of gravel gets used for that might be regularly > observed by laymen (yeah, I know about building foundations, sand filters, > French drains, etc) would be roadbeds surfaced by something else (gravel; > compacted gravel that's basically a paved road minus the tar and binders; > asphalt; concrete; etc, thus making this material visible only during > construction, repair or severe decay; or rails), and to fill in > particularly bad parts of trails or tracks that got washed out before. > > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-us mailing list > Talk-us@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us > > -- Dave Swarthout Homer, Alaska Chiang Mai, Thailand Travel Blog at http://dswarthout.blogspot.com
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