> I stand corrected on the two direction sections BUT the examples you give > ARE > motorway_links rather than motorway. Most of the links like this that I > frequent have now been divided with a barrier. And a word of warning the > 'Maximum speed' for a single carriageway road in the UK is 60 MPH. This > applies to these links up to the 'start of motorway' sign which may not be > actually at the end of the link - I've seen traffic cops with speed guns > on a > couple of roads that merge into the motorway ;) > But motorway_link has usually been used to tag sliproads. These aren't sliproads - it's the mainline of the motorway. http://pathetic.org.uk/current/a601m/photos/images/Dsc00055_jpg.jpg
The start of motorway sign is at the end of the link where it meets the B-road in the case of the A601(M) - and the end nearest the Walton Summit Industrial Estate in the other example. The 60mph limit for cars on single carriageways do not apply to "special roads" - which is the legal term for motorways (and one or two other bits of road like the A55 at Conwy - where you'll notice there are "70"mph signs rather than the national speed limit sign). Instead, the "Motorways Traffic (Speed Limit) Regulations 1974" apply to all motorways - defining the limit to be 70mph for cars - regardless of whether it is single or dual carriageway. _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
