Yeah, trunk seems more appropriate to me, motorway seems to make me think of a limited access roadway with a statisticaly insignificant chance of getting hit head on. On Jun 28, 2013 8:07 PM, "Evin Fairchild" <evindf...@gmail.com> wrote:
> So basically, these super-2 roads should be tagged as motorways instead of > primary or trunk? That would be fine with me. Even though I have changed > roads like these back to primary when someone had changed them to motorway, > I only did that because I thought motorway was not supposed to be used > there. But if motorway is to be used, that's okay with me. > > -Compdude > > > On Thu, Jun 27, 2013 at 8:49 PM, Chris Lawrence <lordsu...@gmail.com>wrote: > >> On Wed, Jun 26, 2013 at 2:36 PM, Paul Johnson <ba...@ursamundi.org> >> wrote: >> > That would mean most freeways including interstates in the west, with >> the >> > exception of limited sections in the bay area, southwestern California, >> > central Portland and urban Seattle wouldn't be motorways, as restricting >> > pedestrians and bicycles is unusual in 34 states. >> >> To clarify, I meant that most states have some practice that involves >> specially marking freeways; for example, California uses the "Freeway >> Entrance" sign, as I believe is also the case in Nevada, Washington, >> and a few other states, while in many other states the restrictions >> are spelled out on a sign at the beginning of controlled access and >> on-ramps. Of course, there are states that don't post these >> restriction signs (like Mississippi), and there are states that allow >> certain categories of vehicle on some or all freeways that are >> forbidden on other states' freeways. But as a guide for figuring out >> if a stretch of road is a freeway (and thus in OSM tagging a >> highway=motorway) knowing field signing practices for freeways is a >> helpful indicator, along with the legal designation of the route (if >> the state makes a legal distinction between partial and full control >> of access, regardless of the terminology). >> >> And this isn't tagging for the renderer. It's tagging based on the >> western hemisphere translation of the concept of a "motorway," which >> includes the possibility of undivided routes with full access control. >> Tagging for the renderer would be tagging undivided freeways as >> trunks because we want them to be visually distinct from divided >> freeways tagged as motorways in Mapnik's default style. >> >> TLDR version: if there are signs at each end saying the road is a >> freeway, and we have it tagged as a primary rather than a motorway >> (the super two freeway section of US 101 in Washington State is >> apparently an example, based on what He Who Shall Not Be Named says in >> another forum), that's a problem. We can haggle over more ambiguous >> cases like (presumably) MD 60 - I've never driven it and haven't done >> any research with the state authorities, so I have no particular >> expertise there. >> >> >> Chris >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Talk-us mailing list >> Talk-us@openstreetmap.org >> http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us >> > >
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