Talk:Tag:surface=gravel

Other potentially useful images:

Relatively loose relatively large gravel - but not too much.

Gravel sunken and compacted with dirt, forming relatively nice surface

Small loose gravel

Mix of sunken an loose gravel

Mateusz Konieczny (talk) 07:30, 13 March 2021 (UTC)

More examples

Gravel may often be used as a synonym of  macadam according to this old discussion on related surface types.

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  Pure  gravel

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  Loose and abundant gravel road in Czechia

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  Loose and abundant gravel road in Estonia

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  Somewhat loose gravel road in Iceland

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  Close up, for comparison with pebblestone

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  Gravel pedestrian paths in a courtyard in France

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  Gravel street in Brazil

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  Gravel-covered dirt road in Brazil

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  A mountain path - is this in scope?

Please make this more concise

I have seen "surface=gravel" on paths like this http://www.mountainbikers-paradise.com/tracks/lafatscher/fk/lafatscher29.jpg (the tour guide uses OSM http://www.mountainbikers-paradise.com/track/innsbruck/lafatscher) and where paths cross a scree, cant remember how many of those I let mistakenly drop.

Note that short version of surface definition is at Key:surface, though if some parts are not needed and can be removed without losing something useful - feel free to make an edit Mateusz Konieczny (talk) 05:49, 16 April 2021 (UTC)

Perhaps, I worded my statement badly; I let drop the tag from the data; Eg. on Lafatscher Joch, otherwise all of the apex there would be surface=gravel now, while actually there is some gravel/scree on the way, but there are also rocks 10cm and more and a few 30-50cm steps of bare rock too. Would you agree, that gravel is a kind of cover for compacted? To me, all the pictures above seem to point at that. --Hungerburg (talk) 14:27, 16 April 2021 (UTC)

"Would you agree, that gravel is a kind of cover for compacted?" - sometimes amount of loose gravel is very large, sometimes there is only a bit of gravel and earth otherwise Mateusz Konieczny (talk) 18:25, 18 April 2021 (UTC)

I added a picture to the gallery that may or may not show a mountain path, I can see it! I'd never map there a surface=gravel, but in the data there are samples, and indeed, it is loose, as the definition does/did state.

Thinking about, how to disqualify the mountain path example - only this comes to mind: the gravel was not put there by humans. It is unpaved gravel, like surface=earth, while the other pictures might show paved gravel. --Hungerburg (talk) 19:10, 18 April 2021 (UTC)

I would say that such naturally occurring gravel can actually qualify for surface=grave (it is hopelessly broad anyway...) Mateusz Konieczny (talk) 20:09, 18 April 2021 (UTC)