On Fri, May 11, 2012 at 2:37 PM, Nathan Edgars II <nerou...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 5/11/2012 4:23 PM, Martijn van Exel wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> Two-lane expressways. I came across one of these when running an >> analysis on OSM data in Vermont, USA. I didn't even know they existed. >> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two-lane_expressway#United_States >> The one I looked at is tagged as motorway: >> http://osm.org/go/ZfEWG3GI-- >> http://osm.org/go/ZfUQxspO >> That feels right to me. Is it the convention to tag them as >> highway=motorway? >> >> Reason is I am running an analysis to detect trouble with the main >> road network. One trouble flag is highway=motorway without oneway tag, >> but that would flag this road here and it's perfectly OK. > > > Since oneway=yes is the default for motorways (per the wiki, and apparently > some routers), these should be tagged as oneway=no (as these two in fact > are). > > It's somewhat more common to have a two-way motorway_link, which should also > be tagged oneway=no. >
That's a good point. I can use that convention to improve my query. -- martijn van exel http://oegeo.wordpress.com _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
