On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 02:39:12PM +0200, "Marc Schütz" wrote: > But the point is that the users already have voted by the way they > actually use the highway tag. What dieterdreist did was just change > the wiki to match the reality, so that it is actually useful as a > documentation.
The wiki should not only match the reality, it should suggest proper behaviour to (new) users. Text like If a section of road in the US looks like a motorway then it can be tagged as a motorway without researching its funding sources or driving up and down the road looking for an Interstate sign. to me suggests lazy tagging. In The Netherlands there are two types of motorway, "autoweg" (max speed = 100 km/h, could have same-level crossings) and "snelweg" (max speed = 120 km/h, no same-level crossings), which are quite difficult to discern without driving up to the entrance and checking the signs. However, they are sufficiently different that I think it's worth it to either tag it as highway=road and let someone else determine the proper tag or just to make sure what kind of road something is before it is tagged. Just my two €0,01 Sybren -- Sybren Stüvel http://stuvel.eu/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/sybrenstuvel
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