Various comments: I'm not sure that those roads (Hume Highway) should be marked as motorway, > but > got no comment on the talk-au list when i asked for comments. >
The Hume *Freeway* is definitely a motorway. There are places between Melbourne and Sydney where it's just a highway, but it's dual carriage almost the whole way through Victoria. The Western Freeway also allows bikes. (And for anyone who hasn't tried it, riding on a motorway has some serious slipstreaming benefits!) >This is one area where national defaults won't help - you'd have to get down to local rules. I've referred to "Jurisdictions" a few times for this reason. I imagine US states are possibly even more individual. Would we go as far as councils/municipalities? Probably not. (Although, as I mentioned somewhere earlier, the City of Melbourne prohibits bike riding in parks, while other councils don't. My preferred solution would be tag paths in the former as footway, and in the latter as cycleway). >The point I was making was that it should *not* be necessary to >*require* "a database of all laws of all countries" This statement is unnecessarily scary. "Database". "All laws". "All countries". Like I said, think about it. Of course not. The variations are minor, and represent a tiny proportion of the traffic laws of each country. And we could certainly have defaults that most countries match. Remember, the goal here is to have a situation where the most intuitive and convenient way to tag stuff where people live is as consistent as possible with the rest of the world. A cultural/legal matrix is the right way to do that. Steve
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