On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 11:25 AM, Paul Johnson <ba...@ursamundi.org> wrote: > On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 8:13 AM, Clay Smalley <claysmal...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 9:26 PM, Toby Murray <toby.mur...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> > I know there is some disagreement about road classification, >> > especially when it comes to trunk but I'm pretty sure most people >> > would agree that this is incorrect. Thoughts? >> > >> I've been told you should use highway=trunk, expressway=yes for this. >> Not sure of the validity or widespread use of the tag. > > > The trunk part, yes. The expressway part, I don't see anything outright > wrong with it, but don't see a whole lot of value, either, as the term is > loaded. Oklahoma, for example, calls both freeways and expressways as > "expressway" (such as the War Veteran's Expressway south of Tulsa or the MLK > Expressway in Tulsa), New Jersey and Delaware seem to only call toll roads > expressways (even though they're toll motorways). > > Likewise, undivided freeways and divided expressways are obviously > differentiated by the number of roadways and whether or not there's > intersections with something other than a link.
http://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/keys/expressway expressway=yes, seems to be a fringe tag at best. _______________________________________________ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us
