Motorways can sometimes have lower speed limits than some sections of highways and some suburban streets can be divided roads so I find it hard to use those criteria to determine if a road is a motorway. I think we should be guided by the RMS. If they have given it an "M" alphanumeric designation then it OSM should show it as a motorway. But in this case the RMS classifies it as a highway rather than motorway so I support it being shown as a trunk route in OSM. Thanks Mark for noting this issue and correcting it.
On Tue, Jan 5, 2016, at 10:07 PM, Mark Pulley wrote: > I’ve now been past this area to check the access on this section of the > Great Western Highway. Between Lithgow and the Mudgee turn-off, there are > several properties with access from the highway - this includes houses > just next to the road (with the front yard facing the highway), and a > service station. I’m inclined to return this section of highway from > motorway to trunk. What does everyone else think? > > On 20 Dec 2015, at 9:11 am, Mark Pulley <mrpul...@lizzy.com.au> wrote: > > On 19 Dec 2015, at 1:20 pm, Andy Townsend <ajt1...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Just for info, I've suggested that a relatively new mapper in Northern NSW > >> might want to contact other mappers here in a comment on > >> https://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/35480438 > >> (https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/332351666 is clearly unjoined, but > >> there may be other issues). > > > > I’ve just noticed that the same user has ‘corrected' the road type for a > > section of the Great Western Highway to motorway (between Lithgow and > > Wallerawang). > > https://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/35571830 > > Maxspeed is 110 for some of this, 100 for the rest, road is divided - > > however there is only one ‘interchange’ (part of this is an at-grade > > junction). other road junctions are at-grade intersections (not > > interchanges). > > It also isn’t technically limited access - there is a motel and a service > > station beside the road, and I recall at least one driveway. (I’ll be > > driving on this road in a few days so I can check if needed.) > > I’m in two minds about whether to revert this change or not. What does > > everyone else think? > > > Mark P. > > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-au mailing list > Talk-au@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au _______________________________________________ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au
