[mkgmap-dev] default style: highway=path means unpaved?

Tue Sep 8 10:13:17 BST 2015

For Unclassified - yes I agree. It should be rather unpaved. However for at
least highway=cycleway and highway=unclassified (very rare anyhow) - I
think a country based list wouldn't be too bad. If you know that 99% of
such ways in your country are paved - shout out.... Otherweise IMHO both
should be assumed unpaved.
Unclassified I would guess paved by default for Central/Western/ European
countries? But unpaved for Northern (but not Denmark), Eastern European
countries - and the rest of the world? Certainly unpaved for most of Asia
and Africa...

On 8 September 2015 at 10:46, Gerd Petermann <
gpetermann_muenchen at hotmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Felix,
>
> okay, got the point, but why do we assume that a highway=unclassified is
> paved
> when no other tag gives information?
> Might be a good assumption in Germany or Austria, but probably not in
> other areas.
>
> Gerd
>
>
>
> ------------------------------
> Date: Tue, 8 Sep 2015 10:32:14 +0200
> From: extremecarver at gmail.com
> To: mkgmap-dev at lists.mkgmap.org.uk
> Subject: Re: [mkgmap-dev] default style: highway=path means unpaved?
>
>
> Well that was introduced because it is unknown. If you have a map and want
> to avoid unpaved ways - and select that - then there really should be no
> unpaved ways. If we don't set unpaved here - the avoidance will not be
> strict enough anymore...
> highway=path & bicycle=designated could well be a tracktype=grade2 and
> sometimes even grade3 or worse... And in cases of a mtb route - clearly
> something completely unrideable for a normal cyclist...
>
> On 8 September 2015 at 10:19, Gerd Petermann <
> gpetermann_muenchen at hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> I just noted that the default style sets the mkgmap:unpaved
> flag for many cycleways, e.g.
> http://www.openstreetmap.org/way/276070019
>
> I see intensive discussions about wrong use of
> highway=path and/or wrong interpretation of that tag.
>
> The rule in lines is
> (highway=bridleway | highway=path | highway=track | highway=unsurfaced)
> & surface!=* & tracktype!=* & smoothness!=* & sac_scale!=*
> { add mkgmap:unpaved=1 }
>
> My understanding is that highway=track is likely to be unpaved, but
> highway=path doesn't suggest that, esp. not in combination with
> bicycle=designated.
>
> Does anybody have a better solution?
>
> Gerd
>
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