text: If I understand it correctly, those examples are from a different type of intersection, where the surface actually change for both crossing roads.
  
  My question is on how to tag intersecting roads of different surface types, where one type so to say take precedence over the other one. I assume splitting and tagging the interrupted street is not the sane thing to do, but I'm unsure if and how such an intersection should ideally be modeled in OSM.
  
  I've now added a question to the Editing_Standards... talk page referenced above.