Diego Woitasen wrote: > > Hi, > Mapping the tolls of a highway a found that there is no tag to assign the > cost of the toll. I haven't found examples in taginfo or tagwatch. Are you > using something for this? > > I know this is a little complex because the cost of the toll is different > and depends in the size of the vehicle, the time of the day, etc. but may > be > we could do something. > Before electronic toll collection, there were two major types of toll collection - barrier and ticket. On a barrier toll road, you would pay a set amount at each mainline or ramp toll plaza, meaning one could put the default 2-axle amount on the barrier=toll_booth node. On a ticket toll road you'd get a ticket when you enter that lists tolls to each exit; when you exit you would hand in the ticket and pay that amount. This can't really be mapped. (A slight variation would have a standard barrier, but if you enter midway between the beginning and the barrier you'd get a ticket that entitles you to pay less at the barrier.)
These two systems are still in use on toll roads that accept cash, and the former can be mapped as such. Electronic-only toll roads may mimic a barrier system, but will more likely make it more "fair" by charging based on distance (and thus working like a ticket toll road). -- View this message in context: http://gis.638310.n2.nabble.com/Cost-of-tolls-tp6161832p6165536.html Sent from the General Discussion mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk