In fact in England the word 'highway' legally includes even public footpaths and bridleways - they are all the "Queen's Highway".
Mike Harris > -----Original Message----- > From: Someoneelse [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: 10 October 2009 10:24 > To: [email protected] > Subject: [OSM-newbies] Highway vs Road (was "What to do about > alleys?") > > G H S wrote: > > Why is everything tagged as "highway", and then often combined with > > types that aren't highways at all? I would have expected something > > like "road=" followed by things like "highway", "alley", > "residential", whatever. > > I think that it's purely historical - I seem to remember > someone saying that the original names for ways roads and > paths (highway, footway, > etc.) all ended in "way". > > In English English, "Highway" doesn't have the same > connotation of "big road between cities" that it has in > American English - it more or less means the same as "road". > > Cheers, > Andy > > > > _______________________________________________ newbies mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/newbies
